Arts Focus Program The Stevenson PACT School has an intensive arts program called "Arts Focus" that is designed to help students explore art in-depth in five subject areas: clay, drawing and painting, paper arts, textiles, and 3-dimensional art. In this program, each child rotates through all the disciplines over a two-year period. The program concludes each year with a professional-grade art exhibit during the last month of school. The exhibition this year will be held at Mountain View City Hall.
Read more:
- Arts Focus Curriculum
- All Stevenson PACT enriched curriculum
- Watch overview video (on YouTube)
- Watch Arts & Technology Animation trailers - Fall-2010, or Winter-2011
Materials Exploration
Materials Exploration
The Materials Class is new this year. It is a survey of five of the most common materials used in art: wood, stone, metal, glass and plastic. Unlike some of the the other Art Focus classes which work with a single medium over all the class meetings, this class will have a different unit each meeting.
The first class will cover the idea that artists once had to make their own materials instead of just buying them already made. The projects will include: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk, Making Plastic from Milk, and a Rock Paint activity in which the children will crush charcoal, lava rock, two types of sandstone, and chalk to make their own paints.
The remaining classes will cover ways that wood, stone, metal, glass and plastic can be used in art. The wood projects will be Paper Bag Trees, Cork Animals and a "Found" Wood Sculpture. During the stone class, we will make Mosaic Coasters and Permanent Sand Castles. For metal day, we will explore Crayon Etching on Metal Tins and make a Robot Collage.
The glass projects will be Etched Water Glass, Painted Stained Glass Jar and a Glass Fusing project. Finally, our plastic activities include Floral Foam Carving, "Found" Plastic Sculpture and Fused Beads.
Arts Education
