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Calverts
Lower School Fine ARTS Night

The ARTS BRIDGE DIFFERENCES All children can blossom and excel in the arts. Children with physical, emotional or learning challenges can experience success in the arts.
Source: Center for Arts Education, and Americans for the Arts, 2002

Your 6th Age child explored different surface treatments to create a collage inspired by Eric Carle

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age artist used a simple version of a wax resist painting technique, called crayon resist, to create masterpieces in the style of Leo Lionni

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age child can identify primary colors and blend secondary colors in their artworks

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age artist donated their talents in Pinwheels for Peace, a community project for worldwide peace efforts.

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age artist can create pattern and shape artworks inspired by master artist, Henri Matisse

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age artist celebrated National Bird Day on

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January 4th by crafting a bird as unique as they are.

6th Age Art

Your 6th Age child practiced creating visual texture inspired by Splat the Cat.

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age student knows how to draw the perfect Winter Snowman

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6th Age Art

Your 6th Age artist discovered design concept, color theory, and Art History in a Piet Mondrian inspired project

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6th Age Art

Through the ARTS

Your child discovers there is often more than one right answer. there are multiple points of view. learning is funcreating is learning.
Source: Center for Arts Education

Your 7th Age child can collage using found materials and repurpose them for a new creative intention

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 7th Age child will imagine and create artworks which are in various perspectives, such as birds-eye-view or worms-eye-view.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 7th Age artist can identify and isolate warm and cool colors.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 7th Age child has discovered the contrast between organic and geometric shapes and lines.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 7th Age student is practicing their collaborative working skills while exploring the prism of the color wheel. They are discovering that primary and secondary colors blend to create tertiary, or intermediate, colors.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 8th Age student can construct spatial depth in a visual composition by demonstrating objects that are present in multiple dimensions of the artwork.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 8th Age artist has mastered fusing two pinch pots together to create a hollow sphere and is adding new textures and clay techniques to their creative arsenal. Presently, 8th Age is sculpting rattling spheres covered with newly explored techniques.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 8th Age child can distinguish different values of the same color and identify which are tints, tones or shades.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 8th Age artist will deepen their exploration of spatial depth through discovery of horizons and vanishing points to build their perspective drawing repertoire.

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7th- 10th Age Art

The ARTS BRIDGE DIFFERENCES

[The Arts]..Nurtures important values, including team-building skills; respecting alternative viewpoints; and appreciating and being aware of different cultures and traditions.

Source: Center for Arts Education, and Americans for the Arts, 2002

Your 9th Age child understands basic three-dimensional forms and can observe them in more complex objects, then can depict them in various scales and positions in the picture plane.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 9th Age student can plan and execute artworks in separate mediums successfully.

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See sketch and clay figure above for example of detailed planning by a 9th Age child.

7th- 10th Age Art

Your 9th Age child will be challenged to begin developing a more conceptual artistic process through discovery of new techniques.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 9th Age artist understands the science behind how the eye perceives colors. In addition to complementary color schemes, they also know how to identify and compose works in the monochromatic, triadic and analogous color schemes.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 10th Age artist uses fine motor skills to execute accurate details with clay tools, and shows mastery of additive and subtractive clay techniques. Also, your 10th Age artist successfully builds sculptures in many modes including slabclay construction.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 10th Age child understands that facial features are proportionate to other features by their related distances on the face and can identify those formulas.

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7th- 10th Age Art

By now your 10th Age student is comfortable with mono-printmaking and is discovering more complex printing and creative thinking processes. Multi-color reduction prints require 10th Age artists to use consideration and planning as the process is an irreversible one. To print different areas of the work in various colors they must permanently cut from the original, and only, printing plate.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Your 10th Age student is expanding their experience by embossing and crafting with metals. They are also combining three-dimensional elements in the composition of their planned two-dimensional artworks successfully.

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7th- 10th Age Art

Through the ARTS

Your child learns to express feelings, with and without words. to observe and describe, analyze and interpret. to think creatively, with an open mind. to collaborate with other children and with adults.
Source: Center for Arts Education

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Your Calvert student shares their musicianship accomplishments through classroom performances

Pilot 9th Age Music

Cultural Sharing is a part of our Music curriculum

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Pilot 9th Age Music

Your young conductors can represent fast and slow, as well as loud and soft with their batons

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Pilot 9th Age Music

Music students celebrated the Chinese New Year with the rest of the World

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Pilot 9th Age Music

Students can make beautiful melodies with their recorders while reading music from the Treble Clef

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Pilot 9th Age Music

Your 9th Age musician can name three famous operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Pilot 9th Age Music

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Your 6th Age student knows the four families of the Orchestra

Pilot 9th Age Music

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Your Pilot student understands that larger instruments produce lower sounds and smaller instruments produce higher sounds

Pilot 9th Age Music

The ARTS BUILD CONFIDENCE

Because there is not just one right way to make art, every child can feel pride in his or her original artistic creations.
Source: Center for Arts Education

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Your 9th Age Art Historian explores paper cut outs, known as collage, and to draw with scissors like Henri Matisse.

Art History

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Your 9th Age Art Historian studies Pablo Picassos Blue and Rose Period and his involvement in the formation of Cubism.

Art History

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Your 9th Age Art Historian studies Leonardo Da Vincis famous Mona Lisa, as well as the creative inventions he designed. Students even practice writing secret messages and using mirrors to decode them, just like the Master himself would.

Art History

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Your 9th Age Art Historian studied Impressionist, Claude Monet.

Art History

Through the ARTS

Your child practices problem-solving skills. critical-thinking skills. dance, music, theater and art-making skills. the language and vocabulary of the arts.
Source: Center for Arts Education

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Your 9th Age Art Historian studies the famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh, and his works Starry Night and series of Sunflowers

Art History

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Your 9th Age Art Historian studies Edgar Degas paintings and sculptures

Art History

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After your 10th Age Art Historian studied American artist, James McNeil Whistler, they created their own side profile drawings of a classmate.

Art History

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After your 10th Age Art Historian studied American artist, Romare Bearden, students created their own collages using magazines, paper, and newspaper. .

Art History

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A 10th Age Art Historian studies the artist Edward Hopper, an American realist painter.

Art History

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10th Age Art Historians study Georgia OKeeffe .

Art History

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10th Age Art Historians study Mary Cassatt .

Art History

RESEARCH on the ARTS shows

A growing body of studies.present compelling evidence connecting student learning in the arts to a wide spectrum of academic and social benefits. These studies document the habits of mind, social competencies and personal dispositions inherent to arts learning.
Source: Critical Evidence by Sandra S. Ruppert; 2006 by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

RESEARCH on the ARTS shows

Research has shown that what students learn in the arts may help them to master other subjects, such as reading, math or social studies.
Source: Critical Evidence by Sandra S. Ruppert; 2006 by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

RESEARCH on the ARTS shows

Students who participate in arts learning experiences often improve their achievement in other realms of learning and life. In a well-documented national study. [researchers] found students with high arts involvement performed better on standardized achievement tests than students with low arts involvement. Moreover, the high arts-involved students also watched fewer hours of TV, participated in more community service and reported less boredom in school.
Source: Critical Evidence by Sandra S. Ruppert; 2006 by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies