ART CLASS 

Art Curriculum for Elementary and Middle School

All students will receive art instruction once per week on their designated class day. Teaching the curriculum of art is an ongoing process. Ideally, students learn to look at and create art, expanding familiarity with artists, styles, and culture throughout their elementary and middle school years. 

The following curriculum concepts will be introduced at across grade levels and align with National Core Art Standards. Of course, how we approach these concepts at different grade levels will be carefully developed based on expectations that coincide with their age, experience, and developmental readiness. Children will be guided in the safe and responsible use of all art tools materials, and will be expected to take responsibility for their working space. 

• INTRODUCTION TO ALL MEDIA, INCLUDING PROPER MANIPULATION, COORDINATION AND USE OF ALL TOOLS AND MATERIALS.

• DRAWING: Pencils, crayons, markers, colored pencils, pastel chalk, oil pastels, pen and ink, contour line, shading, cross hatching, perspective, overlapping, scale, positive-negative drawing space, figure drawing, still life, 3D 

• PAINTING: Watercolor, Watercolor colored pencils, Tempera

• PRINTMAKING: Mono print, stamp printing, block printing

• PAPER: Drawing paper, construction paper, tissue paper, tracing paper, watercolor paper, cutting, folding, paper manipulation, paper weaving, paper mosaics, collage, paper masks

• SCULPTURE: Paper, found art sculpture, clay.

• ART GENRES: Impressionism, Expressionism, Op-art, Pop-art, Abstract, Cartoonist, Cubism, Realism, Surrealism. 

• ARTISTS THROUGH HISTORY: * Artists such as : Jackson Pollack, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Keith Herring, Vincent Van Gogh, Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Rene Magritte, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, Alejandro Obregón, Botero, Frida Kahlo, and more will be introduced.

OBJECTIVES, GOALS, SCOPE AND SEQUENCE 

ELEMENTS OF ART 

* Visual ELEMENTS OF ART such as line, color, shape, value, form, texture and space are introduced * Lessons will focus on sensory experience of their relation and understanding of nature and their environment, pulling from personal life experiences with visual representation through art. *Students are asked to use their imagination as a resource and express through multiple mediums such as drawing, coloring, painting, collage, modeling clay, sculpture. * Students' goals include: holding writing utensils, and coloring tools such as markers, crayons, and paint brushes, basic folding, tearing, cutting, basic paper manipulation (such as folding, curling), pasting. * Construction of art works through an additive process, for example drawing using types of line or types of shapes pieces by piece building. · 

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN – “OTHER WAYS TO SEE ART” 

*Students are able to create narratives and epics. Hand-eye coordination is developed to the point where many complex drawings can be achieved on grade level by a series of simple steps (perspective drawing). 

* Visual PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN such as balance, emphasis, pattern, contrast, movement, rhythm and unity are introduced * Art experience through imitation or modeling will teach students to "see as artists" and use basic elements and principles of design to construct their own works of art. 

*Students are introduced into Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Optical Art, 3DPerspective drawing as “other ways to see art.” 

* Students enjoy the "narrative process" and grand use of imagination in the process of creating at this time. (I.e. surrealism) 

*Terms and concepts such as positive/negative spaces , cityscape, details, and perspective: near and far (large and small), overlapping, imaginative, and background and foreground are introduced. 

* Art History and artists: Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Picasso, Braque, Miro, Renee Magritte, Chagall, ·

 ART EXPRESSION AND COMMUNICATION: * Students become more aware of the value of art in their own worlds. Concepts such as art appreciation, art as function, art in cultures, and art professions is explored. 

* Art in popular culture (such as television, film, and technology) are all more recognizable by students. 

* Students identify and design icons and logos as symbols and other graphic devices as symbols for ideas and information. * Genres include expressionism, abstract expressionism, pop art, Murals, Graffiti Art 

* Terms and concepts include still life, pose, gesture drawing, composition, architecture, construct, photography, graphic design, advertising, animation, caricature, cartoons. 

*Abstract art is thoroughly explored. * Artists such as Wasily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Robert Delaunay, Edward Munch, Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Norman Rockwell are introduced. 

ASSESSMENT : Evaluation is based on development of projects and assignments done during class time and on final product according to following criteria: