National Core Arts Standards
The development of National Core Arts Standards was undertaken to establish a process that guides educators in providing a quality arts education in relationship to the other core disciplines.
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The standards were created by a coalition of the College Board, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, National Association for Music Education, American Alliance for Theatre and Education, National Art Education Association, National Dance Education Organization, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Lincoln Center Education. My involvement was as a member of the Media Arts writing team. http://www.nationalartsstandards.org http://nccas.wikispaces.com |
Arts Education Research
Resources and research informing art education.
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Resources and research compiled in support of formal curriculum reviews for the art department of North Allegheny Schools. North Allegheny Art Department Resources and Research
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Art Education Special Projects
This is a sampling of special projects, residencies and collaborations with performing arts companies, artists, museums and galleries that have enhanced the authentic arts experiences of students at North Allegheny Schools during my tenure as Visual Arts department chair. Click images to view projects.
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In 2012 The Multimedia Arts Classes were commissioned by the District Administration and the Diversity/Unity Committee of North Allegheny Schools to create movie about diversity and unity in the North Allegheny Community. The students responded with a movie, I Am, that addressed the theme through movie portraits of the unique individuals that make up the North Allegheny Community. |
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In the Spring of 2011 Artist Ben Kinsley worked with NASH students to create NASH site specific art works. Students and teachers from several art, music and writing classes worked with Kinsley to create several pieces, some of which are ongoing. |
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In the fall of 2008 students of the North Allegheny Multimedia Classes created four channel video works that interpreted and were inspired by orchestral and choral music and that accompanied performances at the North Allegheny orchestra and choral concerts. Students carefully listened, critically analyzed and researched the music to develop the themes and style of the videos. They planned, shot, and edited in teams that created the videos for each movement of the music. |
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This collaboration with Squonk Opera with the creation of viral videos created to help promote Squonk's Astro-rama. "We want you and your class to help by creating some short multimedia clips that’ll be used in this show and to help create hype and buzz leading up to the show – using some of your creations as viral videos." Buzz Miller, Squonk video producer. See the viral videos created by the students of the North Allegheny Multimedia Arts Classes. |
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Students explored the many different ways in which we perceive and understand. We used the circle as a central theme and exploring how the circle is understood and significant in science, the arts, history, and mathematics. It is about the differences and commonality in these ways of knowing and understanding. |
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On February 24, 2001 The Fine Arts Coalition, North Allegheny Schools, The Artists Image Resource, and Troika Ranch collaborated on a multimedia performance piece, CONNECT(DIS)CONNECT, which explored the challenges of human communication in the information age. The piece utilized smart technology that enabled blending of live music, dance and drama with interactive video, music and animation that responded to the performers every move. The performance was the culmination of a week long residency withTroika Ranch, a cooperative printmaking project with Artists Image Resource and months of planning and creative work by hundreds of student artists and musicians. |
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North Allegheny Art Department has collaborated with the Carnegie Museum of Art in the development of educational programs, lessons and materials for the several Carnegie International Exhibitions. Staff have served on an education advisory panel. Students have created on-line journals, interviewed and teleconferenced with artists, created videos, met with curators and acted as student docents for the exhibit. Thousands of North Allegheny students visited and responded to the exhibits. |Selection of archived CI pages 2013 |
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A Community Celebration of Art: Dance - Music - Poetry - Theater - Literature -Workshops - Exhibits - Performances The Circus of the Arts was a community celebration of the arts produced by the Fine Arts Coalition and the North Allegheny Schools Visual and Musical Arts Departments. The Circus took place in 1999 and 2000 at North Allegheny Senior High School. The links below take you to the original web pages created to promote the event. They illustrate the broad scope of performances, exhibits and workshops that were presented by individual artists, performance groups, faculty members, and high school and university students. Each year over 2000 people of all ages participated. Circus of the Arts 1999 Circus of the Arts 2000 |
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A video of a legacy project that used Hyperstudio to create an interactive presentation of The River Project. Elementary students created the imagery, sang and danced, researched and visited historical and natural sites significant to the natural and human history of the Allegheny River. Middle and High School students did water quality testing of the river and created the interactive piece using the elementary students source material. The project was supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Enviornmental Protection. |
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Multimedia Arts Class In this course the students design and create original media richweb sites and computer interactive multimedia presentations that include animation, digital video, photography, graphics, sound and MIDI music. Students will learn to use digital cameras, scan andedit photographs. They will shoot and edit digital video. Students create animation and dynamic web content. Students learn sound recording, sound editing, and design and compose MIDI music.
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