Grade: High School

11 Feb 2024

Customizable High School Arts Program

August-June

Do your students have a strong sense of creativity? A passion for certain types of art or performing? Do you want to engage more with your core subject’s relationship with the arts? Our Arts Educators can incorporate activities to a personalized program that will excite their interests

11 Feb 2024

Improve Your Improv: Finding Your Voice

August-June

Moving through high school and looking ahead at the next years of life, students may find themselves feeling nervous to speak in front of peers and teachers. Spend a day exploring the art of improvisation and comedy, guiding students towards confidence and trusting their voice and ideas.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.HS.4CE Compare and contrast motivations and reactions of characters confronting similar situations.
  • TH.HS.1PR Manipulate vocal qualities, posture, movement and language to express variety in characters and situations.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • SL.9-10.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence
  • SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker’s perspective, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.HS.D2.3.d Develop techniques to empower, encourage and affirm oneself and others, maintaining positive, healthy relationships.
  • SEL.C1.3.d Demonstrate empathy through compassion in self and encourage in others

    Vocabulary:

    improvisation, listening, empower, support, project, suggestion, confidence, inner-champion

    11 Feb 2024

    Arts in the Natural World Series: Sculpture and Forms

    August-October 31; March 15-June

    The Earth has plenty to offer by way of inspiration for artwork. Prepare to visit the hiking trails and creek at the Arts Center where we will investigate our natural clay beds and use clay to experiment with sculptural techniques. Follow us through three phases: the natural history of clay, the science behind processing a natural resource into an artist’s medium, and clay’s role in the arts and daily life more broadly. Programs in the Arts in the Natural World Series seek to demonstrate intersections between the arts and the world around us. This program only operates in warmer months (August-October 31; March 15-June).

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • VA.HS.1PR Demonstrate basic technical skill and craftsmanship with various art media when creating images from observation, memory and imagination.

    Ohio Science Standards:

    • Sci.SHE.HS: Science depends on curiosity, imagination, creativity and persistence.

      Vocabulary:

      fossil, slip, score, coil, slab, process, archaeological record, artifact, Rookwood Pottery

      11 Feb 2024

      Art Criticism

      Creating and observing art is part of the human experience. Do you ever find yourself liking or disliking a work of art, but you struggle to articulate why? Have you ever thought about how our experiences in the 21st century affect the way we perceive art? Students will don the hat of “art critic” in this immersive program as we build our art appreciation toolkit.

      Fine Arts Standards:

      • HSP.1RE Increase relevant vocabulary to describe and analyze components related to visual art.
      • HSAD.1RE Utilize relevant vocabulary to interpret, evaluate and defend works of art.
      • HSP.3RE Utilize art criticism methods when responding to works of art.
      • HSI.4RE Explain the relationship between cultures, communities and artists.

        Vocabulary:

        painting, ceramics, Rookwood Pottery, art history, art criticism, gallery, curator, Feldman Method, description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation

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