Standard: Fine Arts

11 Mar 2023

Binding Your Story

August-June 

Help your students unlock their inner artist at the Arts Center simply by being themselves! In this program students will reflect on their personal experiences by creating art journals. Art journals are a place where students can express their creativity in a mixed-media fashion through both writing and art. Our educators will help students foster a place of creative escape, where they can document memories, thoughts, goals, ideas, and inspiration!

Standards:

  • W.HS.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences
  • VA.HS.1PR Demonstrate increased technical skill and craftsmanship with various art media when creating images from observation, memory and imagination.
  • VA.HS.3PR Solve visual art problems that demonstrate skill, imagination and observation.

Vocabulary:

Art journal, mixed media, craftsmanship, book binding, awl, bone folder, narrative

11 Mar 2023

Meditative Arts

August-June 

The pressures surrounding growing up affects students of all ages, but often significantly impact high school students if they remain unaddressed. At the Arts Center, our educators will lead students through creative projects designed with the intention of relaxation and mindfulness. Students will be empowered with tactics that can be applied when the strain of friendships, school, or work become overwhelming. Some examples of activities include: Neuro-Doodling, Charcoal Yoga, Meditative Music, and Mandalas.

Standards:

  • SEL.HS.D2.3.d Develop techniques to empower, encourage and affirm oneself and others, maintaining positive, healthy relationships.
  • VA.HS.7RE Recognize and articulate the importance of lifelong involvement and advocacy in the arts.
  • MU.HS.3RE Assess how elements of music are used in a work to create images or evoke emotions.
  • MU.HS.4RE Explain how the creative process is used in similar and different ways in the arts.

Vocabulary:

Meditation, mindfulness, self-reflection, relaxation, creativity, mental health

11 Mar 2023

Arts in the Natural World Series: Paper

August-June

This program takes a sustainable spin on the papermaking process by creating paper out of recycled scrap paper that would otherwise end up in a landfill or be recycled and never seen again. This is a hands-on program that encourages students to learn new skills and make sustainable choices.

Standards:

  • ESS.3.3 Some of Earth’s resources are limited.
  • VA.3.2PR Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during artmaking processes.
  • VA.3.1PR Demonstrate skill in the use of art processes.

Vocabulary:

Recycling, sustainability, pulp, mould & deckle, slurry, texture, awl, bone folder

11 Mar 2023

Arts Appreciation Series: Visual Art

August-June

Art evokes reactions. Do you ever find yourself liking or disliking a work of art, but you struggle to articulate why? Students will don the hat of “art critic” in this immersive program as we seek to build our art appreciation toolkit.

Standards:

  • SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • VA.3.1CE Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
  • VA.3.3RE Compare and contrast their opinions of a work of art with those of their peers.
    VA.3.1RE Examine and describe how art and design principles are used by artists to create visual effects. 

Vocabulary:

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

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