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What a great start to the year - my classes are full of students eager to learn and (mostly) glad to be here!
Just a reminder:
ALL STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ART CLASS SHOULD BRING THE FOLLOWING SUPPLIES TO SCHOOL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR:
> 1 set of 8 standard Crayola markers
> 1 set of tray watercolors (Prang brand is the best, but others are acceptable)
> 2 pink erasers
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All grade levels are working on projects based on the element of Art LINE. They are learning the rudiments of art discussion and criticism as we look at works from Art history.
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Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner
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. The 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 number 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.
Art Room Rules & Responsibilities
BE SAFE - with materials, tools, and everything around you
BE RESPONSIBLE - for your supplies, your choices, your use of time, and your mess
BE COURTEOUS - let the teacher teach, wait your turn, work quietly, and push in chairs
BE CREATIVE – be ready to work, have fun, do your best, use your imagination, and work to a goal
BE RESPECTFUL – of others’ feelings, artwork, space and yourself
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Introduction to the Elements of Art and Principles of Design through the study of and experimentation with multiple theories, mediums, and processes.
Link to 6th grade Art |
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Exploration of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design through the study of and experimentation with multiple theories, mediums, and processes.
Link to 7th grade Art |
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Exploration of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design through the study of and experimentation with multiple theories, mediums, and processes. For high school credit.
Link to 8th grade Art I |
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Tentative first meeting Wednesday, September 8, 7:40 in the Art room. Listen for announcements!
Art Club is designed to provide art experiences for students, outside of regular class times, which allow them expanded creative experiences that also benefit the school and community. Art Club is open to any 7th or 8th grade MUMS student in good standing, regardless of their enrollment in an art class. This club meets monthly.
Link to Art Club |
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Pick up your tryout packets in the Art room (#138) now. Tryouts are September 9!! The pictures are the same as last year, so it will be easy to fall back into a study schedule. Teams need to be in place by mid-September since the competition is in early December.
I expect wonderful results again!
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2009-2010 Contest results:
5th grade Art team: 3rd place team, and 4th(Lauren) place medalist
6th grade Art team: 1st place team, and 1st(Lacey) & 3rd(Jenna) place medalists
7th grade: 1st place medalist (Matthew)
8th grade Art team: 1st place team, and 1st (Alyssa), 2nd(ShaCorrian), 3rd (Kayla), & 6th(Stevie) place medalists
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5th through 8th grade students may try out in September to join the UIL Art teams. There is a team of 3-5 students selected from each grade level. The annual UIL Art Contest is based on the study and knowledge of 40 pre-selected international works of art, in addition to general art information from the study guide published bi-annually by the state. Students will study at home and at school, memorizing the artist's names and artwork titles, identifying the artworks and spelling all names correctly.
Link to UIL Art Teams 5-8 |
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Morris Upchurch Middle School
Julie Middlebrooks
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