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This website was created for the purpose of showing-casing my students' artwork. The creations found under "Student Gallery" are a collection of works from my full-time teaching experience working with special needs students, Saturday Art Workshops at Messiah University, and student teaching. The slides below are a selection from each of the projects. Let inspiration strike!
"The arts provide a more comprehensive and insightful education because they invite students to explore the emotional, intuitive, and irrational aspects of life that science is hard pressed to explain"
-Charles Fowler
-Charles Fowler
Elementary Selections:
Middle School Selections:
What We Do in Art Class:
Students learn Visual Art via the four domains of Art Education (Discipline Based Art Education):
Art Production: The kinesthetic manipulation of art creation and technical processes, such as cutting, gluing, painting, printing, etc.
Aesthetics: Learning how to judge and appreciate art, "Do I like this art?" "Is this good art?" "Why?"
Art History/Culture: Discovering artists and the role art plays in our lives and has played in the lives of people before us.
Critical: Exploring art through the elements and principles: line, shape, color, value, space, form, texture, etc.
Aesthetics: Learning how to judge and appreciate art, "Do I like this art?" "Is this good art?" "Why?"
Art History/Culture: Discovering artists and the role art plays in our lives and has played in the lives of people before us.
Critical: Exploring art through the elements and principles: line, shape, color, value, space, form, texture, etc.
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By: Elliot Eisner, the Father of Art Education
- 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 willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
- The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or 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