At Falmouth High School, I am very involved in the art program which would not be where it is today without Jane Baker. Jane Baker is the Studio Art teacher who transformed the art department’s capabilities, rallied for its funding and gave students a chance to truly pursue art in a dynamic environment. I have taken her class since freshman year from studio art one and now AP art. Throughout her course’s I have learned about art history, I have gained an understanding of the time and tediousness that goes into projects and their planning, and, I have also gone on various field trips and learned about the history of locations and people, creating pieces inspired by those trips. She is a believer of Art Integration and has demonstrated so on …show more content…
For Jane, “Art is an important subject because it offers people the opportunity to process their surroundings, their troubles, and their existence in a way that is productive and healthy.” (Baker). She also views are an a means of improving students academically by changing the way they think:
“When a student approaches an art project they must come up with their own answers to an assigned problem. There are many different answers to these problems and it is up to the student to find the answer that best fits their style and interests. This kind of problem solving is unique to art class and impacts the student's performance in other areas.” (Baker)
Over the years she has been very involved in art integration. Within the Boston Public School system, she “created an art program that increased student attendance by providing students with a way to feel successful in their art-making in the community.” (Baker). Within this program, students created murals which were displayed at schools, neighborhoods, and art fairs, allowing them to showcase their work to the community. The art program was involved with english classes to “devise ways to approach their readings as creative thinkers” (Baker). Mrs. Baker also wrote various grants to allow students to create Shakespeare productions. She also ran a weekly after
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1. Earlier this semester I went to have a look around the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Unlike my many previous trips to the museum, the trip I took on September 7th was very different, my friend Griffin and I were on a serious mission. From our favorites we sought out the perfect piece of art to write an essay about. Upon entering the Hall of European Art, I gazed up at one of my favorite paintings in the museum’s permanent collection; A Portrait of Sarah Siddons. During my time in high school, I went to the museum on several occasions, one of which was for an event hosted to help AP art students find the right college. Although I had no intention of attending a university for the pursuit of artistic studies, my visual arts teacher urged me
Participating in arts projects puts people in touch with their heritage and helps give definition to community identity. This has a direct impact on community pride and solidarity. Making art and experiencing art is an act of hope and renewal. Participating in a community arts program may not directly put bread in the mouth, but it provides a rich and nourishing spiritual meal that is often
In education today, art studies are not often viewed as a priority for students and they very frequently get cut from school’s curriculum due to a lack of proper funding. Howeve...
Participating in art classes gives students a constructive outlet to “blow off steam” and a positive environment to “encourage creativity”. Not only this, but students who take art classes turn out to be “well-rounded” adults that have higher “academic achievement”, healthier “social and emotional development”, better “civic engagement”, and more “equitable
Art can be used to raise scores in every subject, “Students who took four years of art classes scored 91 points higher on their SAT exams than those who took half a year or less. Multiple studies also confirmed that there is a correlation between art engagement and students’ other achievements.” (Valeriya Metla) Even with the research linking art and better grades some educators think that it is more worth while to only focus on the core classes because it is more important to fund what is being tested than to help raise children who are creative.
Winner, Ellen, and Lois Hetland. "Art for Our Sake School Arts Classes Matter More than Ever-
The arts have shown to improve multiple categories of a student’s life. All in fact are positive. One topic is the rise of high school graduation rates being related to students having an increase in creative classes. In 2010 the Missouri Art Council (MAC) there
Art is a vastly underrated subject in America’s educational system. Art is the amalgamation of creativity and the various forms it manifests in; painting, writing, drawing, sculpting, performing arts, graphic design, music, and filmmaking. It is often taught at the bare minimum to reserve time for more “important and useful” subjects; like math and science. More important? More useful? On what terms? Is it the common speculation that math and science have many fields that a person could easily get a steady career in while art is an unpredictable career choice? Art is equally important, in different ways, as math and science in the education of kids and higher-level students. Art is a release from the cognitive skills, not a replacement. It doesn’t hold students back, it boosts their academic achievement. It is also observed to aid in the development of
Unfornaturely, Some educational decision makers will not accept arguments based on just the importance of art education (Hetland, Sheridan, Veenema, & Winner 2007). This article will argue research in art education has the same advantages as other subjects, by providing rich meaningful data and insight into the complexity of the human experience (Sullivan, 2006; Eisner, 2006; O’Donoghue, 2009). Research in art education has several interests in art research: arts-based research, arts-informed research and practice-based research (Sullivan 2006; Marshall & D’Adamo, 2011; Rolling, 2010). Marshall (p.13) investigates art practice in the classroom as a valid research method and high school student using their artwork as documentation for collecting data (Sullivan, 2006). The questioning of art-practice research in the classroom is not new, Jane Remer (1996) addressed this issue nineteen years ago of finding an alternative to scientific research methods. Art teachers were held accountable to prove what students were learning in art class was
Art is a tool that helps human beings to express their feelings, thoughts and imagination. Like any other communicative method, the arts also play a vital role in bringing out the thoughts of a human by means of expressive methods such as visual arts, drama, dance and music. It also provides children important skills, confidence and understanding to take part fully in the cultural side of life. Koster (2009, p. 212) states that “the arts are a creative playground for the growing mind.” He emphasizes that the arts actively engage students in order to attain personal achievement or create their end products by using their analytical, interpreting, critical and right decision making skills. The arts also give students freedo...
“Human beings intuit, symbolize, think, and express themselves through dance, music, theatre, and visual art” (Bynoe, Colby 2011). In the future, I plan to inspire children and youth, especially my students, to love and appreciate the arts. As a future teacher, I will integrate all the VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) to make the lessons more interesting and to benefit the students. One of the major VAPAs I am taking into consideration to use in my future career is visual art. Visual Art can benefit students by improving thinking, accessing emotion, processing information and healing trauma (Bynoe, Colby 2011).
Rather take other courses that are less theory based and more productive to help them improve their skills in art. It is important to learn the past history about original artists and their work to get inspiration from but if one’s style of art is different from that than what’s the point of taking that history course? New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1929, avant-garde art gained importance in US, helped by Mondrian and George Grosz, who were escaping the progress of Nazism. Relentlessly, the principles of pioneer craftsmanship wound up fundamental social presumptions for Americans situated toward the humanities. Also, she claims that the most important question about art is what lasts and why does it last? Maybe it is important to know the answers of those questions but art shouldn’t be questionable. Every art piece is important in its own way despite the fact of how long it lasted or not. If an art piece doesn’t lasts, it doesn’t mean it's not as important as the others. It must be important for someone which is not seen by other
Throughout time different forms of art had conveyed various meanings to many people. Whereas some people like to feel and create art in all of its forms for just admiration and/or inner enjoyment, some others separate themselves by focusing on finding or constructing a meaning that the own author or creator intended to communicate and disperse to society. Nevertheless, one thing that brings these very different types of people together, making them share one same idea, is that art is a very important aspect of our everyday life and that it should be exercised for the benefit and achievement of the full human potential. Just like arts which can help students improved in different areas of education, this class has helped me improve my understanding of the different types of art forms and how they should be as part
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