The residencies provide in-depth, hands-on visual arts and music experiences that develop students’ critical thinking and creative problem solving skills while challenging students to transfer knowledge across traditional subject areas boundaries. Through viewing, making, and discussing art works, students come to realize that the arts do not exist in isolation, but are always situated within multiple dimensions, including time, space, culture, history, and the sciences. (National Core Arts Standards: A Conceptual Framework for Arts Learning)
Erika Miranda's class at Sierra Foothill Charter School was thrilled to work with visual artist Anna Friedland. "Ms. Friedland’s classes are aligned with the current English Language Arts standards. Students utilized the elements of art and principles of design in the fields of illustration, photography, advertising, and typography as they learned to effectively communicate ideas visually." (Information courtesy of the Mariposa County Arts Council.)
In an early lesson, Ms.Friedland spoke to students about branding and company's use of colors and flag-like design characteristics to entice customers. Students then designed flags to represent themselves.For the final art lesson with Ms. Friedland, Ms. Miranda's class manipulated printed photos from their second-to-last lesson. Students had fun cutting out the pictures of themselves taken from several vantage points and adding a caption on their art which described the “best part” of them.
Here is one example. Each student created a unique and fantastic piece.Sierra Foothill Charter School is a free, non-profit, TK-8 public school. For more information, contact the office at (209) 742-6222 or visit SFCS’s website: sierrafoothillcharterschool.org. To stay up to date on all the latest happenings, “like” SFCS on Facebook.
