While shopping at Randhurst Mall in February, you may have seen some of our students' work at the Scholastic Art Exhibit. Or maybe student art caught your eye at the Park Ridge Library in the spring. We are fortunate that our community values art as an integral part of a balanced curriculum. Here's a brief quiz to test your visual arts knowledge. Art provides both an historic and a global perspective on past and present cultures and society.
Art encourages the capacity for invention and creation.
These are just some of the findings of the Visual Arts Review Committee which met during the 2000-2001 school year. The Review Committee will continue its work throughout this school year and implement a new visual arts curriculum beginning in the 2002-2003 school year. An effective, comprehensive visual arts education program includes creating works of art, plus much more. In District 64, art instruction is provided once a week for students in grades K-5. One trimester of art is required in grades 6 and 7, and a variety of art electives is offered in 8th grade.