Standard: Fine Arts

01 Mar 2021

The Elements of Storytelling

August-June

Let your imagination run wild in the storybook-like setting of the Greenacres Arts Center as we explore the building, gardens, and trails. Students will delve into characters, setting, POV, plot, and theme to create their very own three-dimensional tale. This program is easily customizable for  6th, 7th, or 8th grade arts and core standards.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.6.1PE Describe how art and design elements and principles are used in artworks to produce certain visual effects and create meaning.
  • VA.8.4PR Present personal artworks that show competence in the use of art elements to create meanings and effects.

Ohio English Language Standards:

  • ELA.8.W.7.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

Vocabulary:

imagine, observe, describe, verbalize

01 Mar 2021

Improv 101

August-June

We all have an inner critic in our minds that tries to bring us down. Through the art of improvisation, we strengthen our inner champion– empowering the ways we can encourage ourselves. Improvisation is rooted in open-mindedness, listening deeply to others, and trusting your own instincts–skills that serve us in every avenue of life. Test out your acting skills and see how easily you can come up with a joke, all while having fun and building confidence with classmates.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • TH.5.1PE Work cooperatively in different roles or jobs within a dramatic and theatrical experience.
  • TH.5.4RE Identify and critique the elements that impede a performer’s effectiveness.
  • TH.5.1CO Brainstorm the modes of presentation (film, television, live theatre, improv, vlog) that most effectively elicit thoughts and feelings from a contemporary audience.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.SL.5.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.D1.1.b Apply active listening and effective communication skills to increase cooperation and relationships.

    Vocabulary:

    collaboration, listening, suggestion, character

    01 Mar 2021

    Cincinnati’s Stories

    August-June

    Greenacres Arts Center shares  Cincinnati’s rich and exciting history each season with a different local story. Join us for the day and walk away with pride for Cincinnati’s history, arts, and culture! This program’s content changes in fall, winter, and spring, so you can visit one, two, or three times.

    • Fall: The history of The Camargo Hunt and Julius Fleischmann Jr., who built and lived in what is now Greenacres Arts Center. 
    • Winter: Rookwood Pottery and Greenacres Arts Center’s connection to it.
    • Spring: Louis and Louise Dieterle Nippert, who founded Greenacres and left positive impacts all over the Queen City.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • DN.4.3PE Demonstrate leadership when working alone, with partners, and in small groups to improvise and solve movement problems.
    • MUS.4.4PE Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others while demonstrating various proper techniques (Fall).
    • MUS.4.7RE Explore music created by Ohio artists and determine how their works were influenced by their Ohio roots (Spring).
    • VA.4.1CO Explore artists and works of art that impact the history and culture of Ohio.

    Ohio Social Studies Standards:

    • SS.4.8 Many technological innovations that originated in Ohio benefited the United States.
    • SS.4.10 The economic development of the United States continues to influence and be influenced by agriculture, industry and natural resources in Ohio (Winter, Spring).

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.C2.1.b Identify reasons for making positive contributions to the school and community.

    Vocabulary:

    history, context, impact, environment, community, values

    01 Mar 2021

    From Story to Stage

    August-June

    Storytelling is best known from the pages of a book. Visit the Arts Center to become a part of the transformation from words on a page into acting on the stage. Full of characters and creativity, test your imagination with performance, and bring new life to telling a story.

    Fine Arts Standards:

    • TH.2.1PE Create movements and voices of characters to communicate feelings and ideas in dramatic or theatrical contexts (e.g., skits, puppetry, pantomime, improvisation and storytelling).
    • TH.2.2PE Explore and demonstrate various design components of a scene (e.g., draw a picture from the stories, create live sound effects and identify clothing items appropriate to the character).

    Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

    • ELA.RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

    Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

    • SEL.E4. 1.a Recognize that new opportunities may have positive outcomes
    • SEL.E4. 2.a Identify physical and emotional responses to unfamiliar situations

    Vocabulary:

    character, setting, conflict, script, blocking, backdrop, stage presence