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 9, 2015

Fall has Flown Away










There are a huge range of fall-themed art projects involving trees and leaves floating around elementary schools. This one is a real winner.

Second graders used wet-on-wet watercolor technique, printed color mixing, simplified drawing, alternative drawing techniques (air-blown ink), and layered pastel three-zone shading to craft remarkably successful pieces.

It seems so simple to draw a tree. But it takes the understanding of basic proportion and essential-shape drawing skills to create an image that reads accurately as "tree". The second graders took to the task with joy. Their joy translated into exuberant printing and on-paper mixing of fall leaves. Most impressively, these very young students were able to conceive of and execute three-zones of shading: normal, highlight, and shadow.

These works are currently hanging in front of the school. Go check them out!
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