Art matters. If you think about it, every aspect of our lives has been impacted by Art in some way. Our clothes, our cars, our homes, our furniture, our dining utensils, our movies and TV shows, our devices: games, apps, etc., have all been designed, developed and created by some type of artist, someone who had to problem solve, focus, persevere, collaborate and be accountable. Art is an essential part of the human experience and a class that is important for all students to experience..
Students in my classes will be introduced to multiple art techniques, materials, approaches, artists, art movements and world cultures. As they complete each project, they will also develop skills in creativity, craftsmanship, self-expression, problem-solving, time-management and critical thinking, (Skills that are essential to success in any career.)
Please visit and/or follow me on Twitter: @We_CreateArt to see what my very creative students are currently creating....
Students in my classes will be introduced to multiple art techniques, materials, approaches, artists, art movements and world cultures. As they complete each project, they will also develop skills in creativity, craftsmanship, self-expression, problem-solving, time-management and critical thinking, (Skills that are essential to success in any career.)
Please visit and/or follow me on Twitter: @We_CreateArt to see what my very creative students are currently creating....
Artsonia:
Artsonia is a free, an on-line art museum I will be using to post and showcase student artwork. In addition to being able to view all the amazingly creative things students are creating in class, you are also able to purchase quality, custom gift items printed with your favorite pieces. (Artsonia also gives a percentage of the sales back to our Art program,! :) Check it out here: http://www.artsonia.com/ Art Club: Meets twice a month, usually on Thursday, after-school, from 2:30-3:30 pm in room 201 or 203. You can sign up for Remind101, to receive text reminders. Accolades for North High Art Students:
Congratulations to the following students who had work accepted into the 2018 LGCSAA show (Lake & Geauga Counties Student Art Awards). Art IV Students: Bri Cameron, Jenna Kerns, Hannah Norton, Sydney Troxell Art III Students: Tessa Hartman, Megan Manco, Tyler White Art II Students: Jesmina Alia, Sydney Barnhouse, Sophia Blatnik, Miquelle DePuy, Katryna Gjerek, Julia Kerns This year's judges, which included college-level Art professors, local artists, and retired art educators, recognized the hard work, talent, dedication, and craftsmanship of these students, by awarding: 1 best in grade 11-12($200), 1 best in grade 12 ($100) 8 blue ribbons. 6 gold seals, and 7 honorable mentions. 23 awards went to North High Art students!!! Great work everybody! Check out the award winning pieces below: You can check out the entire exhibit in person, which is free and open to the public, at The Fine Arts Gallery at Lakeland Community College. The show will be open from Sunday, January 21 through Saturday February 17, 2018. The Fine Arts Gallery is located in building "D", just to the left of the clock tower, in the Performing Arts Center on the first floor. Gallery hours are M-F: 9-9 and S-S: 9-5.
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10 Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner (from the National Art Education Association) 1. 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. 2. ThTThThee arts teach children that problems can have MORE than ONE solution and that questions can have more than one answer. 3. The arts celebrate multiple PERSPECTIVES. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to SEE and INTERPRET the world. 4. 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. 5.The arts make VIVID the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can KNOW. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our COGNITION. 6. The arts teach students that SMALL DIFFERENCES can have LARGE EFFECTS. The arts traffic in subtleties. 7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which IMAGES become REAL. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. See more at: http://www.arteducators.org/advocacy/10-lessons-the-arts-teach#sthash.TkIgXU6D.dpuf http://www.arteducators.org/ |
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ms. Kirschnick
Eastlake North High School
34041 Stevens Blvd.
Eastlake, Ohio 44095
Main Office: 440-975-3666
Email: [email protected]
North High School Website: http://www.weschools.org/northhighschool_home.aspx
Twitter: @We_CreateArt
Ms. Kirschnick
Eastlake North High School
34041 Stevens Blvd.
Eastlake, Ohio 44095
Main Office: 440-975-3666
Email: [email protected]
North High School Website: http://www.weschools.org/northhighschool_home.aspx
Twitter: @We_CreateArt