Slide show for first lower school Fine Arts Night. I taught 7th-10th Age Art, however designed the presentation for faculty.

1. Welcome to
Calvert’s
Lower School
Fine ARTS Night

2. The ARTS
BRIDGE DIFFERENCES
All children can blossom and excel
in the arts. Children with physical,
emotional or learning challenges can
experience success in the arts.
Source: Center for Arts Education, and Americans for the Arts, 2002

3. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age child explored different surface treatments to
create a collage inspired by Eric Carle
6th Age Art

4. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age artist used a simple version of a wax
resist painting technique, called crayon resist, to
create masterpieces in the style of Leo Lionni
6th Age Art

5. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age child can identify primary colors and blend
secondary colors in their artworks
6th Age Art

6. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age artist donated their talents in Pinwheels for Peace,
a community project for worldwide peace efforts.
6th Age Art

7. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age artist can create pattern and shape artworks
inspired by master artist, Henri Matisse
6th Age Art

8. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age artist celebrated National Bird Day on
January 4th by crafting a bird as unique as they are.
6th Age Art

9. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age child practiced creating visual texture
inspired by Splat the Cat.
6th Age Art

10. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age student knows how to draw
„the perfect‟ Winter Snowman
6th Age Art

11. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age artist discovered design concept, color
theory, and Art History in a Piet Mondrian inspired project
6th Age Art

12. Through the ARTS…
Your child discovers
• there is often more than one right
answer.
• there are multiple points of view.
• learning is fun—creating is learning.
Source: Center for Arts Education

13. ???Did you know???
Your 7th Age child can collage using found materials and
repurpose them for a new creative intention
7th- 10th Age Art

14. ???Did you know???
Your 7th Age child will imagine and create artworks which are in
various perspectives, such as birds-eye-view or worms-eye-view.
7th- 10th Age Art

15. ???Did you know???
Your 7th Age artist can identify and isolate warm and cool colors.
7th- 10th Age Art

16. ???Did you know???
Your 7th Age child has discovered the contrast between organic
and geometric shapes and lines.
7th- 10th Age Art

17. ???Did you know???
Your 7th Age student is practicing their collaborative working
skills while exploring the prism of the color wheel. They are
discovering that primary and secondary colors blend to create
tertiary, or intermediate, colors.
7th- 10th Age Art

18. ???Did you know???
Your 8th Age student can construct spatial depth in a visual
composition by demonstrating objects that are present in
multiple dimensions of the artwork.
7th- 10th Age Art

19. ???Did you know???
Your 8th Age artist has mastered fusing two pinch pots together to
create a hollow sphere and is adding new textures and clay
techniques to their creative arsenal. Presently, 8th Age is sculpting
rattling spheres covered with newly explored techniques.
7th- 10th Age Art

20. ???Did you know???
Your 8th Age child can distinguish different values of the
same color and identify which are tints, tones or shades.
7th- 10th Age Art

21. ???Did you know???
Your 8th Age artist will deepen their exploration of spatial depth
through discovery of horizons and vanishing points to build
their perspective drawing repertoire.
7th- 10th Age Art

22. The ARTS
BRIDGE DIFFERENCES
[The Arts]..Nurtures important values,
including team-building skills;
respecting alternative viewpoints;
and appreciating and being aware of different
cultures and traditions.
Source: Center for Arts Education, and Americans for the Arts, 2002

23. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age child understands basic three-dimensional forms
and can observe them in more complex objects, then can depict
them in various scales and positions in the picture plane.
7th- 10th Age Art

24. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age student can plan and execute artworks in separate
mediums successfully.
See sketch and clay figure above for
example of detailed planning by a 9th Age
child.
7th- 10th Age Art

25. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age child will be challenged to begin developing a more
conceptual artistic process through discovery of new techniques.
7th- 10th Age Art

26. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age artist understands the science behind how the eye
perceives colors. In addition to complementary color schemes,
they also know how to identify and compose works in the
monochromatic, triadic and analogous color schemes.
7th- 10th Age Art

27. ???Did you know???
Your 10th Age artist uses fine motor skills to execute accurate
details with clay tools, and shows mastery of additive and
subtractive clay techniques. Also, your 10th Age artist
successfully builds sculptures in many modes including slab-
clay construction.
7th- 10th Age Art

28. ???Did you know???
Your 10th Age child understands that facial features are
proportionate to other features by their related distances on the
face and can identify those formulas.
7th- 10th Age Art

29. ???Did you know???
By now your 10th Age student is comfortable with mono-printmaking
and is discovering more complex printing and creative thinking
processes. Multi-color reduction prints require 10th Age artists to use
consideration and planning as the process is an irreversible one. To
print different areas of the work in various colors they must
permanently cut from the original, and only, printing plate.
7th- 10th Age Art

30. ???Did you know???
Your 10th Age student is expanding their experience by
embossing and crafting with metals. They are also combining
three-dimensional elements in the composition of their planned
two-dimensional artworks successfully.
7th- 10th Age Art

31. Through the ARTS…
Your child learns
• to express feelings, with and without
words.
• to observe and describe, analyze and
interpret.
• to think creatively, with an open mind.
• to collaborate with other children and
with adults.
Source: Center for Arts Education

32. ???Did you know???
Your Calvert student shares their musicianship accomplishments
through classroom performances
Pilot – 9th Age Music

33. ???Did you know???
Cultural Sharing is a part of our Music curriculum
Pilot – 9th Age Music

34. ???Did you know???
Your young conductors can represent fast and slow,
as well as loud and soft with their batons
Pilot – 9th Age Music

35. ???Did you know???
Music students celebrated the Chinese New Year
with the rest of the World
Pilot – 9th Age Music

36. ???Did you know???
Students can make beautiful melodies with their recorders
while reading music from the Treble Clef
Pilot – 9th Age Music

37. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age musician can name three famous operas
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pilot – 9th Age Music

38. ???Did you know???
Your 6th Age student knows the four families of
the Orchestra
Pilot – 9th Age Music

39. ???Did you know???
Your Pilot student understands that larger
instruments produce lower sounds and smaller
instruments produce higher sounds
Pilot – 9th Age Music

40. The ARTS
BUILD CONFIDENCE
Because there is not just one
right way to make art, every
child can feel pride in his or
her original artistic creations.
Source: Center for Arts Education

41. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age Art Historian explores paper cut outs, known
as collage, and to “draw with scissors” like Henri Matisse.
Art History

42. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age Art Historian studies Pablo Picasso‟s Blue
and Rose Period and his involvement
in the formation of Cubism.
Art History

43. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age Art Historian studies Leonardo Da Vinci‟s
famous Mona Lisa, as well as the creative inventions he
designed. Students even practice writing secret messages
and using mirrors to decode them, just like the Master
himself would.
Art History

44. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age Art Historian studied Impressionist,
Claude Monet.
Art History

45. Through the ARTS…
Your child practices
• problem-solving skills.
• critical-thinking skills.
• dance, music, theater and art-making
skills.
• the language and vocabulary of the arts.
Source: Center for Arts Education

46. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age Art Historian studies the famous artist,
Vincent Van Gogh, and his works “Starry Night” and series
of “Sunflowers”
Art History

47. ???Did you know???
Your 9th Age Art Historian studies Edgar Degas‟
paintings and sculptures
Art History

48. ???Did you know???
After your 10th Age Art Historian studied American artist,
James McNeil Whistler, they created their own side profile
drawings of a classmate.
Art History

49. ???Did you know???
After your 10th Age Art Historian studied American artist,
Romare Bearden, students created their own collages
using magazines, paper, and newspaper.
.
Art History

50. ???Did you know???
A 10th Age Art Historian studies the artist Edward Hopper,
an American realist painter.
Art History

51. ???Did you know???
10th Age Art Historians study Georgia O‟Keeffe
.
Art History

52. ???Did you know???
10th Age Art Historians study Mary Cassatt
.
Art History

53. RESEARCH on the ARTS shows…
A growing body of studies….present
compelling evidence connecting student
learning in the arts to a wide spectrum of
academic and social benefits. These
studies document the habits of mind, social
competencies and personal dispositions
inherent to arts learning.
Source: “Critical Evidence” by Sandra S. Ruppert; 2006 by the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies

54. RESEARCH on the ARTS shows…
Research has shown that
what students learn in the arts
may help them to master other
subjects, such as reading, math
or social studies.
Source: “Critical Evidence” by Sandra S. Ruppert; 2006 by the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies

55. RESEARCH on the ARTS shows…
Students who participate in arts learning experiences
often improve their achievement in other realms of
learning and life. In a well-documented national study….
[researchers] found students with high arts involvement
performed better on standardized achievement tests than
students with low arts involvement. Moreover, the high
arts-involved students also watched fewer hours of TV,
participated in more community service and reported
less boredom in school.
Source: “Critical Evidence” by Sandra S. Ruppert; 2006 by the National Assembly of
State Arts Agencies