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Art Classes
6th Grade Art
7th Grade Art
8th Grade Art
Fall Art Elective
Spring Art Elective
Our Art Philosophy
Recognizing that art cannot be separated from the study of history, language, culture, and other academic disciplines, a DBAE (Discipline-Based Art Education) approach will be used throughout all of the art courses. This is a conceptual framework that encompasses the following :
- Production: creating or performing
- History: encountering the historical and cultural background of works of art
- Aesthetics: discovering the nature and philosophy of the arts
- Criticism: making informed judgments about the arts
Students will be exposed to a variety of artists and develop a vocabulary to discuss both the art that they make and the art of others. Furthermore, students will use the Elements of Art (line, shape, color, texture, form, space) and Principles of Design (repetition, variety, harmony, contrast, unity, balance, emphasis) to create works of art that focus on process and not product.
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.
