In the United States, fine art education in public schools have been a controversial topic for years. Due to fundings, imagine your child had to choose between art or math. Well of course a parent would choose a math course because they would not survive society in their future without counting. Although, fine art gives an opportunity for a student to express themselves with their thoughts and feelings through the participation of the fine arts. As in today’s society everything is consider “art”. That everything could be in fashion styles to the structures of building such as the Space Needle in Seattle. Additionally, fine art requires to perform works of music, sculptures, dances, drama, and visual arts as well as composing and producing. Fine art has improved over the years. Fine art has thirteen categories of art. Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry with performing arts such as theatre are fine main arts in history. Although, today’s generation has to do with filming, photography, video editing, design,
According to Matt Phifer, sixty-eight percent of fine art education in New York’s public schools were getting cut. The outbreak was distributed all across the United States sufficiently to get better standardized test results. Each government has their own priorities for education. In California, the government’s highest priorities are math and reading, which abandons the art education in the dark. The budget cuts in fine art education are disposed of Americas’ children socially, emotionally, and academically. When budget cuts force education services to diminish many possibilities for pupils, their learning is often devastated. For instance, a school that suffering from high budgets and a student who is also suffering with a low-income family needs more attention with their education because they cannot provide equivalent education like other students around the same
A recent development in public education has been the decline in arts programs nationwide. Budget cuts to arts programs are responsive to decreases in state funding, especially in states with conservative economic policies. Many states have also enacted legislation disabling local school districts’ abilities to justify employing art and music teachers. Consequently, several problems have manifested themselves, including the loss of arts programs proving detrimental to the overall quality of education for today’s children. First and foremost, arts programs improve overall performance in core school subjects; this is demonstrated clearly through higher test scores amongst students with exposure to arts and positive correlations between arts and core class engagement. Other reasons supporting retaining arts programs include to help foster community development, produce creative minds, develop problem-solving skills, aid in child development and visual-spatial skills, and encourage underprivileged students to remain in school (Metla, 2015). By removing arts programs from some public schools, an alarming issue of public concern arises. Public education, given that it is considered to be a non-rivalrous and non-excludable, is deemed a public good (Clark, 2016). Cutting arts programs in public schools, especially when cuts transpire in schools saturated with heavy minority populations, creates inequitable education and creates a serious issue of public concern.
Many schools consider art, music, and physical education programs ‘fluff’ classes, which is why when schools are looking for a place to save money those are some of the programs that are first to go. Claire Suggs, Senior Education Policy Analysts for the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, found that “about 42 percent of districts are reducing or eliminating art or music programs and 62 percent are eliminating elective courses” (“Cutting Class” #1). Art and music programs should not be cut because they allow students to explore their creativity and improve problem solving skills. On the
the arts maybe “frivolous” to those who build bridges to nowhere, but we need to prevent them from trivializing the debate. Spanning the bridge between now and our cultural-economic future is no smaller.”(Stelluto) “fine arts classes at the high school level is not option in many cases due to the need for fine arts credits to graduate, course offerings within the fine arts departments can be condensed or eliminated altogether.” (Dickson)
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...
Edmund Burke Feldman was an Alumni Foundation Distinguished University Professor of Art at the University of Georgia. He was an art educator as well as an art historian. He has written several books about art including The Philosophy of Art Education, First Edition, 1995. The primary focus of this paper is to inform and show what Doctor Feldman thought was important to art teachers by correlating the practices of teaching art to the issues of philosophy Doctor Feldman wanted to bring together both subjects of art education and art teaching. He outlined the principle issues of art education and provided art teachers with a way of creating goals for teaching art.
Fine arts classes benefit students and schools alike. Fine arts are needed courses, not just as electives but as core classes that promote learning and creativity in the lives of students. There are three different styles of learning: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Fine art provides an avenue for all of these learning styles to be utilized during one class period; therefore, all students are able to understand and benefit from the curriculum. In a normal academic setting all types of learning may not be used, so a percentage of the classroom will not understand the lessons as well as it could have if it had arts incorporated into the class.
In her book, Tiziana Andina states that family resemblance offers a good way to distinguish art from non- art without the need to rely upon a definition (107). The family resemblance theory allows for a wide variety of pieces, none of which have identical properties, to still be considered as artwork. There are major differences between classical art and the modern, contemporary art. However, both are still considered art. Art is comprised of an array of disciplines. The various forms of Art (as of today) include Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Decorative Arts, Applied Arts, Design, Crafts, and Performing Arts, etc. (“Meaning and Definition of Art”). Although none of the forms of Art require the exact same skill set to partake in, all of them require skills that are in common with some of the other
In today’s society anything can be considered “Art”. From the great sounds of a symphony, to the architecture of a modern structure, or even an elephant painting with its trunk, art is what the viewer perceives it to be. Individuals will always agree or disagree with the message behind a certain piece of art, as pieces can be offensive to some, but beautiful to others. Some argue that funding the arts in school is a waste of money, time, or a combination of both, but the benefits outweigh the negatives by far, due to a variety of reasons.
Jane Alexander, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), once said, “Many children are missing out on something which gives their education context, gives their lives depth and meaning, and prepares them to be the future workforce.” This “something” that she spoke of is music and art education. Unfortunately, she is entirely correct. We are currently seeing in our country a dramatic cut in arts education curriculum in our public schools due to the limited amount of both time and funding. In many cases budget cutbacks mean arts education cutbacks. This limited amount of resources often forces administrators to place a value on the various subject areas. There is always a demand for greater concentration upon the traditional basics: English, math, science, and history. There is also a new focus on computer competency and a renewed focus on the need for foreign language education. Add to this health education, family life education, industrial arts education, AIDS education, home economics, physical education, and business education and one begins to wonder where arts education fits in.
Art according to the Webster’s dictionary,” art: works created by artists: paintings, sculptures, etc. that are created to be beautiful or to express important ideas or feelings.” Art can be beautiful, confusing, offensive, and stir emotions in people one may not anticipate. The question that one may ask is, “How does one determine what art is?” Art is to one person different to someone else. Art is subjective to anyone’s beliefs, styles, and opinions.
Schools that are in low income areas tend to have a higher dropout rate and lower grades. When the art budgets are cut the only classes that may be keeping some of the kids engaged in school may also be cut. Although it takes the budget away from the core subject supporting the arts in a high risk school will eventually help the school in the long run and help the students there learn the life skills that are needed to get through school and succeed in life. Art is a great way to get and keep the attention of students who are not interested in
Every fall high school seniors around the globe are in a state of panic. Of course you are no stranger to this process, you have dealt with this stress firsthand. What process is being described you may ask? The process of applying to college. Each year seniors scramble to submit applications, transcripts, and letters of recommendations to the schools of their choice. These documents are essential for nearly all students who want to advance to an institution of higher learning, but for many the paper trail does not end there. Seniors interested in a career in art, well specifically in visual art, need one more thing to obtain that sparkling acceptance letter. That missing link is a portfolio.
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Art education is defined as a specific occupational area where the subject art is taught within a public or private school system. Because art classes are publicly funded, classes are provided to students who show artistic talent and those who do not (Salmon 103). The use of art can be dated back to the days of the Neanderthal, and until the Italian Renaissance, art was only considered culturally important and was not taught (DeHoyas). At the birth of the United States of America, male and female students were taught different forms of art, where the boys’ art was typically more functional. The teachings of art were ofte...
Vincent Van Gogh once said, “I dream of painting and then paint my dream.” I have always dreamed of being an artist, I knew that I was going to be an artist from the first time I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Art Education is the major that I have selected to study at UNI, and am excited to start my studies. I selected Art Education for many reasons but the two main reasons that I chose to study art education are because I have a passion for educating others, and because I want to explore everything that art has to offer.