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, March 21, 2014

World Music Update

There is so much happening in the art room right now. Kindergarteners are writing and illustrating a book together. First Graders just finished up Ceramic Koalas. Second Grade created amazing self-portraits using three-tone shading. Third Grade is in the middle of a realistic drawing lesson to accompany poetry, Fourth graders are exploring symbolism in their self-portrait boxes while fifth graders are putting their finishing touches on a landscape painting and printing project connected to the settlement of the American Colonies. Sixth grade has begun work on a special mural project.

But today I am most excited to see the musical sensibilities of the children grow as I visit our PTA-funded World Music Program Instructors. the exposure and experience gained in these sessions are inspiring. Students are growing awareness of culture and music concurrently.

I am pleased to announce the confirmation of our next set of instructors. Garit Imhoff will work with our young students while Mark Lamson will teach our older kids. Please read on to learn more about the musicians who will be spending time with our students in the Spring.







MARK LAMSON Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Percussion


Mark Lamson has 7 recordings and countless performances to his credit and is highly sought after for his professionalism, experience, and expertise in playing a broad range of musical styles and assembling top-notch talent. While Mark’s repertoire includes R&B, rock, latin jazz, New Orleans brass band, funk, and hip hop, his true passion lies in fusing the popular and traditional music of Brazil and Cuba with modern American and Latin American styles. Based in San Diego, CA, Mark is the Director and lead percussionist for Sol e Mar, a dynamic Brazilian/Latin music collective which he co- founded in 1985. Sole e Mar features anywhere from 3 to 50 performers, ranging from a bossa nova jazz trio to a full drum bateria replete with Brazilian samba dancers in full Carnaval regalia. In 1994, Sol e Mar won “Best Latin Band” at the Second Annual San Diego Music Awards.




GARIT IMHOFF Zimbabwean Mbira Music

Garit Imhoff is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts and has played in world music ensembles for the last forty-five years. He is a professional mbira performer and an all around entertainer, specializing in storytelling and movement. He is also a teacher of special theatre arts and music programs supported by The California Arts Council, National Endowment of the Arts, and local community grants. He works with special-needs students in his local school system, provides entertainment programs for seniors in skilled nursing and alzheimer facilities, and is part of a program that raises funds for arts education in developing countries. He has been a member of Zimbeat, a professional San-Diego-based Zimbabwean music ensemble, since its inception. He has studied and performed Zimbabwean music extensively both in the United States and in Zimbabwe.
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