NJMS ART CLASS

 

Home Student Gallery 1 Student Gallery 2 Student Gallery 3 Student Gallery 4 Student Gallery 5 E-Mail Mrs. Phillips Mrs. Phillips Website

                                                                                                                                                           

"Where Every Student is a Star"

•
North Jefferson Middle School’s Art Program
•
•The arts program for middle school provides a nurturing environment in which students are encouraged to explore visual communication through focused self-expression in two and three-dimensional forms. Through various in-class assignments that require careful observation, students gain hands-on experience with a broad range of materials and techniques. With much positive reinforcement, young artists acquire skills and greater confidence in their creative efforts. A particularly important goal is that students learn to enjoy the process of creating visual arts as they gain experience in visual problem-solving and in expressing their emotions and ideas.
•
•Students will learn basic art history as they work on visual art projects that also relate to a multi-curriculum projects that are explored in other classes. In addition, they will be learning and using appropriate vocabulary to communicate their visual art experience. For example: line, form, texture, value, focal point, proportion, space, variety, balance, repetition, pattern, harmony, rhythm, hue intensity, value, shade, and tint, all the elements and principle of art.
•
•Students may access major museums of art during class using the Internet, and typically visit one museum in the course of the year. Technology is incorporated throughout the year; students prepare a PowerPoint portfolio presentation of their own art work. In addition, students will create an altered book on an artist and that artist’s work. Students will keep an art journal/planner to monitor the process for building an altered book documenting the learning process that enriches their creative processes. The art curriculum is designed to enrich students’ innate art ability by covering required Alabama art standards and to incorporate and enhance students learning in core classes.