Title: Academic Course in Art
Location: US
Company: Education
Academic Course in Art
The art program at Brookside blends self-expression, the development of creative thinking, and an appreciation for art history. These elements are the foundation for the development of children's ability to visually express their ideas. Our goals are to reinforce their deeply rooted creative impulses without inhibition, and to help them build confidence in their expression. The art program encourages children to gain an understanding of the unique contributions the arts make to everyone's experience with, and understanding of, the world. As children grow, these elements will continue to reinforce their imagination and originality, observation and visualization, and awareness of space, color, line and pattern in man-made forms and in nature.
An important part of the Brookside Studio art experience includes exposure to Cranbrook's artistic heritage and resources. The children visit the Cranbrook Art Museum and Saarinen House, draw in the Oriental and Brookside Gardens, and study the sculpture and architecture on campus. The fifth grade students work with an artist-in-residence who is a second year graduate student at the Cranbrook Art Academy. This artist-in-residence works along with the studio teacher and the children in their area of artistic expertise.
The art program can be divided into the following areas of investigation at every grade level: drawing, painting, printmaking, forming and constructing.
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