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.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

An ArtPartners visit from Professional photographer and graphic designer Garrett Highhouse




Sixth Grade students are living in a vast landscape of digital imagery. More than any generation before, these students will live with an intuitive visual vocabulary created by bearing witness to thousands and thousands of images, made available through internet culture.

But there is an art to creating images, and masters of the craft are able to understand their choices and create images to fulfill a goal. Garrett Highhouse, a local sports, surf, lifestyle, and fashion photographer graced us with a visit to share about a wide range of topics. We looked at lighting, composition, equipment, and motivation. We talked about the business of photography and the necessity to create a visual "brand". Needless to say, the sixth-graders were mesmerized.
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