CREATIVE ARTS DEPARTMENT
"The wider the range of possibilities we offer children the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences"
Studio Artist/ Educator
Elizabeth Hiciano
"What adults call wrong in child art are the most beautiful and most precious. I value those things done by small children; they are the first and purest source of artistic creation. I see children full of potential and respect their feelings, questions and respect them as a whole. As a Studio artist and Early childhood Educator, I believe that children must have 100 ways and opportunities to express themselves. Just as Howard Gardener suggested, there are multiple forms of knowing. There are also many ways of expressing, demonstrating, and interpreting knowledge. By providing my students with different art experiences such as drawing, painting, sculpting, printmaking and performance art, as well as allowing them to experiment with different tools and materials, I help my students find themselves, develop as artists and highlight their talents. I believe that it is important to connect math, science, reading, language arts and technology with the arts in order to motivate young artist to invent, create, and problem solve. By exposing them to the art community in our city such as visiting art museums, professional art studios and inviting local professional artist to share their techniques and talents with my students I strive to inspire and help develop them as young artist."
ART K-5
Dance
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Community service Art project
The heART Bag Project is a community service art project led by local Miami Dade Creative Arts teacher/ Founder of Jar of heARTS Elizabeth Hiciano. The heART Bag Project was initiated by her former middle school art class in support of their classmate, who was affected by pediatric cancer. Each bag includes art materials such as crayons, color pencils, coloring books, watercolors and other comfort items to help ease their chemo treatment and hospital stay. Each bag is then tied to a heart balloon. Jar of heARTS founder Elizabeth Hiciano believes that balloons have a magical way of lifting a child’s spirit. The project has so far enriched the hearts of over 3k hospitalized children thanks to our community partner the Marlins who participated in The heART bag project in June by helping paint, pack and deliver 150 heART bags to Holtz Children’s Hospital, Sylvester’s pediatric oncology clinic “Alex’s place” and to Jackson’s Pediatric Prescribed Extended Care Center.
About Jar of heARTS
Jar of heARTS is a local non profit 401(c)(3) founded by a local art teacher whose mission is to help children overcome trauma through creative art expression and enhance the patient and family hospital experience.For more information, visit www.JarofheARTSfoundation.org or follow us on @JarofheARTSorg
Let's connect
Email: Hiciano@AcademirCharterSchoolEast.com
School Phone:
(786) 360-6033
11300 NW 41st ST Doral, FL 33178