Fine Arts

Most of you know that we have a Fine Arts Website that tells about each of our areas. Please check it out by clicking HERE.

You could also get there by going to:

pasco.k12.fl.us

click on the tab at the top "DEPARTMENTS"

scroll to find "Fine Arts" & click on it

You can navigate through our Fine Arts Website by using the green department navigation section. Please go to your department and check it out. Look for your school in the list. If you have a school website for your department, make sure it is linked there. If it isn't, please email Michele Christy <mchristy@pasco.k12.fl.us>. In order for us to link your website it must be linked to your school's website first.

**Please email Michele Christy photos of your program that you would like to be rotated onto the website. We really want to promote the arts and show off what the students are doing.

Congratulations to Lilliana Elmore (10th grade) from RRHS!

She has received an Award of Excellence with Distinction from the Florida Art Educators Association (FAEA) Student Virtual Exhibition -- a statewide competition – for her acrylic painting, “Creative Chaos.”

This is an incredible achievement, as it is very difficult to receive a perfect score from the FAEA adjudicators.

Click HERE to see the 2022 K-12 Student Art Assessment and Virtual Exhibition

We need more mentors for all areas of Fine Arts.

Please take some time to consider this opportunity.

These are the requirements:

• Minimum of three years "highly effective or effective" teaching experience
  
• Demonstrated emphasis on personal professional development and advancement of the education profession
• Demonstrated effective skills related to:

• designing, delivering, and assessing high-impact learning activities for ALL students
• building a compassionate classroom
• communication, collaboration, and organization
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills, qualities, and experiences
• Principal recommendation - Click HERE for the recommendation form

Completed forms need to be emailed to Charlotte Kralik. All recommended teachers will be registered in myPGS. Please select the date you are available on the form.

**ALREADY A MENTOR?**

You should be getting the mentor newsletter called "Mentor Minute". If you are not on the mentor email list, contact:

Charlotte Kralik (catkins@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Steve Causey (scausey@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Let them know that you are a mentor and would like to be on the mentor email list so you can receive the Mentor Minute newsletter and other important information.

If you are a new teacher or new to Pasco, you should have a mentor assigned to you. If you do not have a mentor, please reach out to your principal. If you and your principal would prefer you to have a mentor in the same field as you, Tom Viking and Michele Christy have a list of approved mentors in the fine arts. Your principal can contact us for suggestions.

You are eligible to have a mentor for your first 2 years in Pasco County.

You should be meeting with your mentor at least 1 time per week. The meeting can be in person, via zoom, or phone call.

If you are not already on the "new teacher" email list from the district you might want to contact:

Charlotte Kralik (catkins@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Steve Causey (scausey@pasco.k12.fl.us)

Let them know you are a new teacher, what subject you teach, and where you teach. Ask to be put on the new teacher email list so you can start receiving the Newbie Newsletter and receive all the information that they send out to new teachers.

We would love to announce any accolades that you and your dance classes have received. Please email Michele Christy with information about awards that you and/or your students have received so we can promote your dance programs. Do you have any student going to competitions? Placing in any competition? Please let us know.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

Click HERE to go to the "DanceTeacher" website. It is full of interesting articles, teacher stories, and prompts for reflection like "Barbara Duffy’s Top Tips for Teaching Improv" by Lauren Wingenroth.

Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) is an experimental laboratory, a safe place for new and experienced dance teachers to enhance their skills, develop sequential curriculum, and learn from one another. For over twenty-five years, DEL has been training and supporting the work of dance educators, equipping the teachers of today with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom.

Check out their Blog to find interesting topics of discussion like "Finding Rhythm Through Call and Response: Body Percussion with Nicholas Van Young" for prompts for reflection.

They have a Video Gallery where you can find things like "LMA/LOD for Dance Educators". In order to view the videos, you will need to go to myPascoConnect first and sign in to Content Keeper Bypass.

Check out these websites for music education:

Flat

‘Whether you're a beginner or a professional composer, Flat’s music composition software gives you all the tools that you need to make your own sheet music. You can write, listen, share and discover music scores right in your web browser on any device.’

Music Theory

Music Theory offers a wide variety of exercises, lessons, and tools to help you learn music.

Interactive Music Sites

This Weebly page features a collection of resources to help students learn music. These include tools for composing music, virtual instruments, interactive games and many more.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

A whole new way to play your Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes™ like a xylophone! Used as a carrier, it accommodates 8 Boomwhackers Musical Tubes, a pair of Boomwhacker Whacker™ Mallets and a Whack-a-Doodle-Doo! Songbook. Two or more can be combined end-to-end for a wider range of play. Made of cotton, elastic and hook-and-loop fasteners. *Tubes, mallets and songbook sold separately.

Thank you, Erin Holbrook, TOES music teacher, for sharing this find.

Tips and Tricks of a Drama Teacher - Drama Tools That Is, By DHCBALDWIN

This is a short article that suggests a few items to purchase to help with your theatre class.

Check out this article/blog called Lesson Plans for Drama Teachers by Lindsay Price.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

Check out the Stage Agent Blog!

You will find so many educational tips and ideas in this blog. One thing you should check out is the article titled "Acting Exercises You Can Do Alone" by Laura Josepher. This is one of many articles you will find in the Stage Agent Blog.

5 Simple Classroom Management Solutions for the High School Art Room is an article from The Art of Education University. This article discusses the 5 most common management issues:

• Early finishers
• Large class sizes
• Students not treating art like a "real" class
• Students talking when they should be listening
• Cell phones

Check out the article "Art Teacher Hacks for Creating Positive Art Classroom Routines" by Amy Clay @ Deep Space Sparkle. You will find 10 suggestions that might help in your classroom.

Yammer

Don't forget to use Yammer. It is a great resource to use when you have questions or to share some successes. If you are not on Yammer, email Tom Viking or Michele Christy to get the directions to join.

Initiated in 1985, this annual juried art exhibition presents work by middle and high school students throughout Florida whom are invited to explore ideas and visions similar to those explored by Salvador Dalí and the surrealists. This year, the theme is “The Metamorphic Moment,” a theme that encourages students to explore the process and meaning of transformation through time, myth and literature.

Congratulations to the Pasco county students who were awarded the opportunity to have their artwork displayed at the Dali museum over the summer. This year the Dali received 450 works from 90 art teachers statewide and selected only 114 to display (28 from middle schools and 86 from high schools)

11 of the 114 are from Pasco County!

Zakary Tracy, a 10th grader @ JWMHS (art teacher: Donna Fulton) won the “Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest” for Pasco County and will go on to the state competition.

We at ASAP are committed to promoting the Arts in our community. ASAP members are excited to start planning some great events, workshops, peer support, and artist opportunities in the new year. We welcome all Pasco Art Teachers, either public, private, charter, active or retired art specialists, at all grade levels.

ASAP provides the opportunity to recharge & promote the artist in you. ASAP is working in conjunction with The Pasco Fine Arts Council, PFAC, to offer a variety of benefits when you join both organizations!

Art Specialists Association of Pasco has a $15 Annual Membership Fee, and our membership drive is underway for the 2022 calendar year!

You may also consider joining both ASAP and PFAC for a combined cost of $50 for the year, and enjoy the benefits of membership in both, such as:

participation in PFAC Member Shows, attending classes and workshops at a reduced cost, a listing in the PFAC Artist Registry, access to the artist library, opportunities to sell your items in the PFAC store, and more.

Please check our website for more information on how to join. Or you can also connect to ASAP through the PFAC link. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Hensel (mhensel@pasco.k12.fl.us).

ASAP:

https://artspecialistassoc.wixsite.com/asap

PFAC:

https://www.pascoarts.org/

We hope that you will join us!

We have an Elementary Visual Art Display and a Secondary Visual Art Display on our Fine Arts Website to show off the amazing artwork that our students were doing. We would love to continue to display your students artwork on this platform.

If you would like to have your students artwork on our district wide Padlet:

1. take photos of your best student artwork
2. email the photos to Michele Christy <mchristy@pasco.k12.fl.us>.
3. include the students first name and grade

We will put all the photos you send on our Padlet and rotate the best of the best onto the website page. You can send one photo at a time or multiple photos. What ever is easier for you.

We cannot wait to see all the amazing things your students are and will be creating! We would love to represent EVERY school on this Padlet.

Check out THIS YouTube video titled: Artist Faith Ringgold’s life’s work celebrated in New York exhibit. Hear about Faith Ringgold's current exhibition and life.

Why did Monet get up first thing in the morning to paint the sunrise?

He wanted to make a good first impression!

Tom Viking - Fine Arts Program Coordinator

Michele Christy - Fine Arts Resource Teacher

Email: tviking@pasco.k12.fl.us
Website: pasco.k12.fl.us
Location: 7227 Land O' Lakes Boulevard, Land O Lakes, FL, USA
Phone: 813-794-2585