Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Artpartners visit from Surfboard Designer Josh Oldenburg



Local Surfboard Designer Josh Oldenburg paid a visit to our fourth grade classes as part of our ArtPartners program.

He spent the hour describing and demonstrating the process of design, sculpture, pigment and color use, materials use, and functional considerations that go into custom, handmade surfboard design. Oldenburg's process stands in stark contrast to the vast majority of surfboard manufacturers' who rely on assembly line production. Oldenburg creates each board from start to finish from design to final polish in a process that is much like sculpture.

Students were also asked to try their hand at using a basic template to design an outline for a board. It was really neat to see the kids' creativity come to the fore after they heard from Mr. Oldenburg.
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