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, May 2, 2014

Magical Moments with a Teacher: Negative Space Sea scene











For this year’s Magical Moments with a Teacher afternoon I welcomed some eager artists into the art studio. We first sipped on self-created smoothies while setting our cerulean backgrounds to canvas. Next, we created negative-space stencils to guide our compositions. Finally we used on-the-brush paint mixing techniques to create surrounding colors that highlight the shapes of our stencils. They are wonderfully cheery little creations of which our little artists can be proud.

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