In The Art Studio…

Stained Glass Markers are here, check out Sixth Grade to see what beautiful designs they have come up with… like…

Learning to Look

 Being an artist starts with looking, really looking.  Everything around you is made up of the stuff of art: lines, shapes, spaces, textures, colors.  Turn on your senses. Use your eyes and use your fingers to discover the art in your world.

“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see –  to see correctly – and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.” ~ Kimon Nicolaides 

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Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner

1. The arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative relationships.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. There are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach 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.