“EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST”
PABLO PICASSO
That's what we believe in Woodlake Elementary Art Work Shop. We are creating an environment for the students where they can discover and express themselves through art. The Art Room is a continuously evolving space and is in the second year of instruction. We have a specific room for visual art explorations where we work and learn as we go. All students attend the Art Work Shop once a week. We begin our year with basic Shapes, Colors, Lines, working on art pieces by Mondrian and Kandinsky. We continue with Picasso and Matiss in the spirit of Cubism/Self Portraits. A complete schedule of when your student attends the Art Work Shop each week can be found on our website under the Parents/Volunteers drop down menu. The Art Work Shop welcomes parent volunteers!
Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are:
Young artists, as compared with their peers, are likely to:
("Living the Arts through Language + Learning: A Report on Community-based Youth Organizations," Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching, Americans for the Arts Monograph, November 1998)
(Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School, James S. Catterall, The UCLA Imagination Project, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA, Americans for the Arts Monograph, January 1998)
(YouthARTS Development Project, 1996, U.S. Department of Justice, National Endowment for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts)
My name is Sharon Oren. I am the Art Instructor for Woodlake. I am a previous Woodlake Parent and volunteered for many years at Woodlake in the classroom for art. I was the art administrator for Woodlake's previous art program "The Art Box." In my own studio I teach art and do the recycled art project for Night of The Arts with the Woodlake students.
I love teaching and seeing our student's expression through art.
I am excited the PTSA continues to fund the Art Room which allows students once a week to participate in art in our Art Work Shop space. I hope Woodlake students will connect to and develop their imagination through visual arts.
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