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Amherst Middle School Art

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see things.

A Student with a senseof…DESIGN can create and appreciate

human-made objects that go beyond function and may be perceived as

beautiful, whimsical, extraordinary, unique or emotionally engaging…

1Pink, D. H. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, 2006

2http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/vislit.htm

A Student with a sense of…

STORY communicates effectively with others by creating, as well as

appreciating a compelling narrative…



A Student with a senseof…

SYMPHONY synthesizes ideas, sees the big picture, crosses boundaries, and

combines disparate pieces into a meaningful whole…



A Student with a senseof…

EMPATHY understands another’s point of view, is able to forge relationships

and feels compassion for others…



A Student with a senseof…PLAY creatively engages in problem-

solving, benefits personally and socially from flexibility, humor, risk-taking,

curiosity, inventive thinking and games…



A Student with a senseof…MEANING pursues more significant

endeavors, desires and enduring ideas, has a sense of purpose, inspiration,

fulfillment, and responsibility in making informed choices towards

higher-order thinking skills and transformation.



AMHERST MIDDLE SCHOOL ART FOR 2012-13 SCHOOL YEAR

8th Graders• Students who are in Band or Chorus have Art

for only one semester. Students who do not take Band or Chorus have Art all year long.

• During each semester, students have Art for 2 days out of a 6 day rotating schedule.

• Classes are 45 minutes long.

• Average class size: 18.9


7th Graders• Students who are in Band or Chorus have Art

for only one semester. Students who do not take Band or Chorus have Art all year long.

• During each semester, students have Art for 2 days out of a 6 day rotating schedule.


• Average class size: 22


6th Graders• One Semester of Art

• During the semester, students have Art for 2 days out of a 6 day rotating schedule.


• Average class size: 18.6


5th Graders• Two Trimesters of Art

• During the trimesters, students have are for 2 days out of a 6 day rotating schedule.


• Average class size: 20

Peek-a-Boo, Intaglio Print by Sarah Eastland

Beaten, Digital Photography by Sydney French

The Time Has Come

Intaglio Print by

Liam King

HappinessDigital Art by Tim

Driscoll

Into the Depths,Ceramics by

Madison Colby

Balz (Left) and Ryan (Right), Drawings by Sienna Langone

Under the Lens, Metal Foil Relief by Elise Lambert

Sunset HawaiiBlock Print by Anna Tobin

Arizona 0855, Digital Photography by Sarah Eastland

Lucky Bamboo, Metal Foil Relief by Maddie Futrell

Squiggly Forest, Intaglio Print by Julia Mendola

The Lucky Find

Drawing by

Rhonda Card

GolemDigital Art by Quinn Rallis

Skaters, Drawing by Isabel Blume

Synthetic, Digital Art by Brenna Desborough

My Head, Wire Self-Portrait by MacKenzie Yarter

Mask by Soleil Gookin

Wired, Wire Self-Portrait by Hannah Kershaw

Monochromatic Painting by Sarah

Aspinwall

Girl with the Purple Earrings, Wire Self-Portrait by Christine Lui

Colored Pencil One-Point Perspective Drawing by Shannon Paquette

Paper Hat by Sarah Eastland

Paper Hat by Anna Tobin

Pastel Drawing by Evmorfia Alton

Paper Hat by Quinn Rallis

Pen and Ink Drawing by Alex Burnley

Unfinished Colored Pencil Drawing by Nate Chamberlain

Mask by Eren LaBonte

Paper Hat by Siobhan Saunders

Mask by Seth Ohlemacher

Unfinished Colored Pencil Drawing by Tim Johnson

Paper Hat by Brenna Desborough

Oil Pastel Drawing by Marissa Romano

Colored Pencil

Drawing by Daniela Roldan

Skroli, Sculpture by

Hannah Kershaw

Metal Foil Relief by Jane Leighton

One-Point Perspective Drawing

by Jack Manning

Oil Pastel Drawing by Tristan Colby

One-point Perspective Drawing by Ryan Parker

One-point Perspective

Drawing by Lily Batchelder

Unfinished Colored Pencil Drawing by Ashley Cui

Paper Hat by Katie Castel

Collage by Chase Woods

Paper Hat by Lindsey Hagerstrom

Pencil Drawing by Noah Desrosiers

Wintery Walk, Colored Pencil

Drawing by Katie McCann

Block Print by

Jacob Roberts

Pencil Drawing by Courtney Holtman

Head in the Clouds, Intaglio Print by Katie McCann

Flight, Origami

Earrings by Faith Farnham

Paper Hat by Emma

Estabrook

Mixed Media Owl by Alex

Meader

Pencil Drawing by Julia

Mendola

Collage by Nate Sodders

Paper Hat by Rebecca Hall

Me and My Tutu, Intaglio

Print by Rebecca Hall

Mask by RyleighTobin

10 LESSONS THE ARTS TEACHby Elliot Eisner, Art Education Researcher and Scholar

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the

curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than

rules that prevail.


2. The arts teach children that problems can have

more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.


3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see

and interpret the world.


4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving

purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the

unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.


5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language

do not determine the limits of our cognition.


6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large

effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.


7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All

art forms employ some means through which images become

real.


8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children

are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach

into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.


9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what

we are capable of feeling.


10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young

what adults believe is important.

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