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, February 28, 2014

Printing with passion in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.





Third grade students were inspired by literature and illustrations, particularly from Doreen Rappaport's Martin's Big Words, to create an image representing the power and passion of Dr. King as he struggled to bring equality to the people of the United States.

We chose to use a faux stained glass background created from watercolor resist technique to frame a printing of iconic images of Dr. King. Students used a lightbox and print block to create lasting etchings with striking affect.

The printing will be coupled with graphic-art styled printed poster that challenged the students to create a second print block, this time with phrases and words that related to the civil rights struggle.

Keep your eyes peeled for those finished images in the next few weeks.
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