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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!

Fine Arts Standards:

  • 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.

Ohio English Language 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

Vocabulary:

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

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. Programs in the Arts Appreciation Series encourage students to practice their communication skills, particularly oral communication, through intentional opportunities for speaking about and engaging with the arts and each other.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.3.1PE Observe and compare similar themes, subject matter and images in artworks from historical and contemporary eras.
  • VA.3.5PR Show increasing attention to the nuances of elements and principles of design when creating personal works of art.
  • 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.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.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.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.GS.3.8 Communities may include diverse cultural groups.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.C1. 2.b Identify and acknowledge others’ viewpoints, knowing that both sides do not have to agree but can still be respectful

Vocabulary:

portrait, opinion, art criticism, description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation

11 Mar 2023

Arts Appreciation Series: Music

August-June

This program provides time for your students to immerse themselves in the world of music. Exploring different musical genres, styles, and experiences students will have a hands-on learning experience designed to cultivate an appreciation for music in their lives. Programs in the Arts Appreciation Series encourage students to practice their communication skills, particularly oral communication, through intentional opportunities for speaking about and engaging with the arts and each other.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • MUS.2.1RE Explain how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions.
  • MUS.2.3CE Listen to and identify music of various styles, composers, periods and cultures.

Ohio English Language Arts Standards:

  • ELA.SL.2.4 Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

Ohio Social Studies Standards:

  • SS.GS.2.9 Interactions among cultures lead to sharing ways of life.

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A2. 1.a Identify personal interests and qualities.
  • SEL.B3. 2.a Explain how practice improves performance of a skill and can help in overcoming a challenge or setback.

Vocabulary:

appreciate, styles, genres, instruments, performance, opinion, preference

27 Jan 2023

Art Appreciation Series: Gallery Experience

August-June

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of a museum or art gallery? Students will spend the day with the Arts Educators learning the ins and outs of working at an art gallery and trying their own hand at collaborating, creating, curating, and designing art exhibits. Programs in the Arts Appreciation Series encourage students to practice their communication skills, particularly oral communication, through intentional opportunities for speaking about and engaging with the arts and each other. This program is ideal for a 3-4 hour program.

All multigrade program offerings will be supported by grade-level appropriate standards, available to share upon request.

Fine Arts Standards:

  • VA.5.1.PE Understand that the context of an art object has an effect on how that object is perceived.
  • VA.5.2.PE Identify and communicate how historical and cultural contexts influence ideas that inform artists.

Ohio Engineering Standards:

  • Tech.DT.3-5.2.b. Plan and implement a design process: identify a problem, think about ways to solve the problem, develop possible solutions, test and evaluate solution(s), present a possible solution, and redesign to improve the solution.
  • Tech.DT.3-5.3.c. Identify a product and describe how people from different disciplines combined their skills in the design and production of the product

Social and Emotional Learning Standards:

  • SEL.A4. 2.b Demonstrate confidence in the ability to complete a range of tasks and address challenges while expressing positive attitudes towards self

Vocabulary:

curator, gallery, exhibition, design, docent, collection, painting, context

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