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, November 21, 2014

A Vacation Challenge



After learning about the naturalist artwork of Andy Goldsworthy, I have issued a challenge to our sixth-grade students. During this vacation week, if the desire should strike, I encourage them to create a piece of art completely out of natural resources and set in nature. Take a picture or video of the work and we will post it both on this website and on our school news program KHTS News.

Of course I will create an entry as well.

When learning about Andy Goldsworthy we spoke about how a setting and a material both influences artworks and communicates specific meanings. We also came to conclusions about how art can be perceived as valuable based on both the product that is made and the process of its creation. As an example, many of Goldsworthy's works simply disappear as they are consumed by natural processes and yet the value in their creation is evident and difficult to dispute. Heady stuff, this.

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