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Art: Cultivating Creativity in the Classroom
Imagine that you could climb up on a rainbow to zoom back in time and travel to faraway places, meet famous people, witness exciting events, and come face to face with dragons and unicorns. Wouldn’t that be exciting? We can take trips of the imagination that are nearly as exciting by including the work of famous artists in our preschool programs.
Exploring great works of art and their creators from different times and different places opens new doors to learning for both teachers and young children.
Traditionally, art in early childhood programs focuses on production, or the making of art. People can interact with art in other ways. In addition to making art, we can appreciate it, understand it and even evaluate it.
Preschool programs that encourage these skills through a fine arts program expand a child’s focus from simple art production to the appreciation, understanding and evaluation of art.
Some experts feel children need opportunities to investigate what they see in order to fully appreciate and respond to it ( Gaitskell, Hurwitz, and Day, 1982). The addition of art related activities to the classroom provides another type of hands-on investigation.
Including fine arts in early childhood programs is often as exciting for the teacher as it is for the children. Learning is a lifelong activity and teachers learn as they gather and prepare materials for their students. Let your knowledge of child development be your guide. Challenge your students to reach for new horizons, explore, create, and discover new things. Then, challenge yourself to reach, explore, create and discover.
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Opaque Glitter-Champagne $3.94 ART GLITTER-A 1/2 ounce plastic jar of ultrafine glitter. Many vibrant colors available…. |
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Ultrafine Transparen-Amethyst $3.94 ART GLITTER-A 1/2 ounce jar of ultrafine transparent glitter. Convenient black screw on cap for storage. Use on any paper craft project! Let it sparkle and shimmer!… |
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Ultrafine Transparen-Torch Lak $3.94 ART GLITTER-A 1/2 ounce jar of ultrafine transparent glitter. Convenient black screw on cap for storage. Use on any paper craft project! Let it sparkle and shimmer!… |
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Split Single $4.48 2004 pressing split single featuring sleeve art designed and printed by Todd Rau. A: Only Lovers Left Alive: Nickle Comb B: no t-shirt: Holiday… |
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Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 (Art Institute of Chicago) $40.94 The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colors black and gray, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. Although they have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as aberrations wi… |
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Picasso Looks at Degas (Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute) $40.94 The great Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exhibited a lifelong fascination—some might say “obsessionâ—with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). In this groundbreaking study, noted Degas scholar Richard Kendall and Picasso expert Elizabeth Cowling present well-documented instances of Picassoâs direct responses to Degasâ… |
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Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage (Art Institute of Chicago) $28.00 Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvelous book. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale, these images flouted the serious conventions of photography in the 1860s and 1870s. Often made by women for albums, they reveal … |