Welcome to the Visual and Performing Arts section of the Educational Services Department, PVUSD.

As stated in the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards (2001), "the arts are core subjects, each containing a distinct body of knowledge and skills. Academic rigor is a basic characteristic of a comprehensive education in the arts, including the following:

• Learning through active practice, rehearsal, and creation or performance of works in the arts
• Reading about the arts and artists
• Researching, writing, and communicating about the arts
• Reflecting on the arts in thoughtful essay or journal writing on one’s observations, feelings, and ideas about the arts
• Participating in arts criticism on the basis of observation, knowledge, and criteria

"Another important goal of the standards is to help students make connections between concepts in all of the arts and across subject areas. The arts standards [also] respect the multiplicity of cultures represented in California schools." (page x)

Join Susan Trimingham and Susan Megorden for these outstanding FREE workshops for teachers.

Sign up online at tinyurl.com/pvusdart.

Three Workshops:

• December 5: Intro to painting and materials:
  Using line to express feelings; color mixing primary and secondary colors. (Soulages & Pollack & Mondrian)
   
• February 20: Tints:
  Using white to make tints, while painting to music using color to express    feelings.  Sonia &Robert Delauney & Dewasne) Shape using tints and shapes to replicate a work of art. (Kandinsky & Herbin)
   
• March 13: Shade
  Using black to create patterns. (Klee) Shapes in nature using both shades and shapes to paint fish. (Klee)

All three workshops will be held at Aptos Junior High, room 2, Wednesday afternoons, 4:30 - 5:45 pm

Dance

1. Artistic Perception
2. Creative Expression
3. Historical and Cultural Context
4. Aesthetic Valuing
5. Connections, Relationships, Applications

Music

1. Artistic Perception
2. Creative Expression
3. Historical and Cultural Context
4. Aesthetic Valuing
5. Connections, Relationships, Applications

Theater

1. Artistic Perception
2. Creative Expression
3. Historical and Cultural Context
4. Aesthetic Valuing
5. Connections, Relationships, Applications

Visual Arts

1. Artistic Perception
2. Creative Expression
3. Historical and Cultural Context
4. Aesthetic Valuing
5. Connections, Relationships, Applications