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.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Escher would be proud...


As a continuation of our studies of emerging from our Master Artist Exhibit of a few weeks ago, our students have been enjoying the perplexing, challenging, and gratifying arts in the area of optical illusion and effects. Both the second and fifth grades have taken on new projects in this vein with other grades to follow. The math and logic thinking that goes into this type of art is a perfect connection to classroom experience and helps put a very practical spin on subjects that can seem to be devoid of creative spark. On the contrary, as we have seen with Escher, math and engineering are linked inextricably to the creative process. As we first dream, we can then do- and to articulate the whole of the process is the goal.
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