Arts integration

With art, comes many different variables and interpretation. Subjectivity through art reveals ideas influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. It may be used as a form of expression, hobbies, comfort or even a cultural ritual. Art can tell stories of the past that are significant to the person and allow people to develop communication skills, a positive self- image and stability with their emotions, without verbally having to tell a story and communicate them to other people.…

The kid is crying because they are so proud of the performance that they just put on for their audience. Having arts education can be the reason that some kids go to school everyday. Many high schools are not requiring art classes every year of high school. While art classes may not be the most important subject, there are many reasons why they need to be required throughout high school. Art classes should be required in every year of high school, because it's required in elementary, it improves…

In Section I, I will discuss the ways in which feminist artists of the 1970s have reclaimed craft to illuminate and destabilize the fictitious art/craft divide. I will continue by explaining how these artists not only privileged craft but embodied craft. In other words, I will explore the ways in which a legacy of feminist artists has performed the role of the trickster, embodying “the crafty…

Music and art are tools that can become a huge impact in a disabled child’s life when they are incorporated in the child’s everyday activities during their development as a child. The use of sound or auditory hearings as well as artistic assignments can be very helpful in order for the child to become more connected with the world through interaction with others. These children gain many new skills that assist them in being more united with others around them. Even though the utilization of art…

Lucy Lippard defines activist art as trying to “combine social action, social theory, and the fine arts tradition, in a spirit of multiplicity and integration.” She also describes activist art as being free from any particular style, as a movement for cultural democracy, and as a way of giving a voice to the seemingly invisible and powerless victims of social and political injustice. Thus, many artists have produced activist art for the purpose of expressing their positions on particular…

Since the introduction of art to society many millennia ago, the fine arts have been used to convey ideas, core values and themes to a captive audience. Whether that fine art is music, drama, visual art or any other medium, everyone around the globe lives and breathes art. Whether someone is a cinephile, enjoys Broadway, frequents museums, or listens to Bach in their car on the way to work, they all have one thing in common- they are learning and enjoying new concepts through a very powerful…

significant part of understanding her art as it is a source of her drive to change modern…

implementation affect Arts curricula and the way the arts are created and approached? Technology has been a very up and coming source used in all cases of everyday life. More and more, we are finding ways that technology can take the place of a tool or way of doing something. A concerning topic is whether or not switching over to so much technology is a good thing. There is becoming more technology put into the education curricula than ever before. Now so, it is moving into the Arts. As we…

in household incomes. As a result of the money generated through art-related events, billions of dollars, $27.5 billion to be exact, in revenue is funneled towards local, state and federal governments annually, a number well beyond the $5 billion in yearly arts allocations collectively (“The Economic Impact of America’s Nonprofit Arts and Culture Industry”1). The arts are a major contributor in the grand scale of a global economy, supplying the balance that is much needed in order to maintain a…

believed that artists were able to use this stolen fire to create art and interpret truth in a way that normal people were incapable of doing. This view led to them being revered as god-like or even as demigods! There were also many critics who neither trusted artists, as they had allegedly used the stolen fire from the Sun, nor believed they were of any value in the public circle, viewing artwork as useless. In other words, “Art doesn’t have the honesty of reason nor the power of philosophy.”…