celebrate with us! national arts in education week september 12-18, 2010 art is everywhere!!
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Celebrate with US!
National Arts in Education WeekSeptember 12-18, 2010
Art is Everywhere!!
The Arts are comprised of a rich array of disciplines including dance, music, theatre, media arts, literature, design, and visual arts.
National Arts in Education Week
National Arts in Education Week
A reason for the Arts is cross-cultural understanding and social communication.
The Arts develop creative and imaginative thinkers.
National Arts in Education Week
National Arts in Education Week
A reason for Art is to create gifts that show love and other feelings to our friends and family.
A reason for Art is to tell stories, events, myths, beliefs,
and literature.
National Arts in Education Week
The Arts enhances higher order thinking in children.
National Arts in Education Week
A curriculum rich in Arts can enhance literacy levels by 24% and increase numeracy levels and mathematical ability by 6%. (O’Brien, 2010)
National Arts in Education Week
National Arts in Education Week
A reason for Art is to create personal and group identity, inspire, school, culture, and/or national identity, loyalty, and spirit.
National Arts in Education Week
A reason for Art is to tell us how people, places, and things used to look.
A reason for Art is to be able to express yourself and use your imagination to represent how you feel.
A reason for Art is to pre visualize ideas for buildings, bridges, cities, and everything else that is imagined before it is made.
(Frank Gehry – Frank Lloyd Wright)
A reason for Art is to add humor to our lives.(James Melchert)
National Arts in Education Week
National Arts in Education Week
A reason for Art is to show appreciation for nature and its beauty.
A reason for Art is to design and create the tools, utensils, and other functional objects needed.
National Arts in Education Week
The Arts are, should be, central to the primary school curriculum, because they help young people to make sense of the world, to communicate in diverse
ways with other people, and to be creative.(O’Toole 2009)
National Arts in Education Week
Celebrate with US!
National Arts in Education Week
September 12-18, 2010
Art is Everywhere!!