Welcome! Here you'll find information about the visual art classes that I teach, student portfolios, the National Art Honor Society, Georgetown High School Yearbook, and the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards.
Visual Arts EducationVisual Arts Education inspires students to perceive and shape the visual, spatial, and aesthetic characteristics of the world around them. Using a variety of ways to explore, learn, and communicate, students develop their capacity for imaginative and reflective thinking. Visual arts is a continuously evolving field that includes the traditional “fine arts” of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture; the design fields including ceramics, and graphic design and the technologies such as film, video, digital imaging ,digital photography and other new media. |
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Massachusetts Visual Arts Curriculum Frameworks
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Georgetown middle high school
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1. Methods, Materials, and Techniques. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the methods, materials, and techniques unique to the visual arts.
2. Elements and Principles of Design. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the elements and principles of design. 3. Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression. Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction, invention, and expression in a variety of media, materials, and techniques. 4. Drafting, Revising, and Exhibiting. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the processes of creating and exhibiting their own artwork: drafts, critique, self-assessment, refinement, and exhibit preparation. 5. Critical Response. Students will describe and analyze their own work and the work of others using appropriate visual arts vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation. 6. Purposes of the Arts. Students will describe the purposes for which works of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and architecture were and are created, and, when appropriate, interpret their meanings. 7. Roles of Artists in Communities. Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural organizations, and arts institutions in societies of the past and present. 8. Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influence, and Stylistic Change. Students will demonstrate their understanding of styles, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art works were created, and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical periods, cultures, and genres. 9. Inventions, Technologies and the Arts. Students will describe and analyze how performing and visual artists use and have used materials, inventions, and technologies in their work. 10. Interdisciplinary Connections. Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology/engineering. |
Academic
The successful student will be... 1. Skilled communicators with a deep understanding of concepts who are able to use effective literacy and reasoning skills to convey complex ideas, construct viable arguments, and create effective solutions. 2. Critical and creative thinkers who strategically apply reading, analysis, synthesis, and reason while working cooperatively and independently. 3. Able to solve problems and communicate arguments by integrating and evaluating information presented in diverse media formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. Civic 4. Students will be responsible, involved, and contributing members of their school and community. Social 5. Students will be reflective thinkers who appreciate divergent cultures, and diverse experiences as contributing members of their school and community |