Welcome to the Adventure

Thanks for checking out my blog. I am really excited to begin my new adventure in teaching children all the wonderful things about the world of art. It is my intent to bring a true art classroom experience to your home. I wish to open the world of art to young people and create opportunities to experience a variety of mediums and styles.

It is important for students to experience visual art both as artists and as audience. As artists, they can use the processes and materials of visual art to explore their own ideas, feelings, cultural identities, observations, and imaginations. As audience, they can see how other artists have expressed their ideas about the world and their place in the world we all share. In contemporary art (including such forms as painting, printmaking, architecture, sculpture, craft, commercial art, film, video, multimedia, and gallery installations), we see artists' reflections on the world in our own lifetimes. Through visual art, we come to see and know ourselves.

Students should

• Understand the elements of art and develop concepts that lead to an understanding of order in the visual environment.
• Begin to develop skills that help them depict people and objects accurately.
• Begin to understand the variety of sources for visual art ideas.
• Begin to develop own ideas into visual art expressions, using the processes and materials of visual art.
• Begin to think and talk about own visual art ideas and expressions.
• Develop understanding of the work of a variety of visual artists.
• Begin to talk about, interpret, and respond to works of art.
• Become aware of the visual environment and visual art in the daily life of own community.