Art In the Classroom
Art In the Classroom
Artists-in-Residence Program
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Artist-in-Residence
Arts For the Schools provides 3rd - 5th grade students throughout the Tahoe Truckee and Incline Village school districts access to professional arts instruction in the classroom.
Now in its 5th year, Arts For the Schools hosts an annual fundraiser, Artists in Bloom, featuring more than 100 pieces of local student artwork which is framed, matted and sold to benefit Arts For the Schools. Artwork is displayed in May at prominent restaurants located in Truckee and North Lake Tahoe. Hors d'oeuvres are provided.
Three professional artists provide students and teachers in grades K-5 valuable educational and developmental experiences through classroom based multi-disciplinary arts. Student art projects introduce children to a variety of visual and language arts mediums. These projects include project background information; practical and philosophical discussions; demonstrations and hand-on experiences. Each student is encouraged to apply the medium to be creative and self-expressive and is led in a group culminating event or experience, such as poetry reading. Past projects have included: totem poles; swimming fish in a stream environment; and egg painting.
These artists meet with teachers in each grade level to help incorporate standard based reading and curriculum materials with these hands-on art projects to demonstrate that the California Visual Arts Key Content Standards are fulfilled.
Through multi-sensory arts instruction, the 3rd through 5th grade program helps develop sensorimotor skills which are essential to language development. Students learn patience, self-motivation, discipline, responsibility, problem-solving techniques and critical thinking. Students also learn to focus and explore their creativity and imagination and realize the value of applying art to real life issues in new ways.
Arts For the Schools reaches more than 700 students each year under its Artist-in-Residence program.
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