Two Rivers Art Gallery

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This Thursday I remembered it was free admission day at the Art Gallery, so I decided to check out the latest exhibition with a few classmates. I was very happy that I did because I discovered the artist Jane Isakson from Whitehorse, Yukon. I really loved and appreciated her paintings for she painted with some of my favourite colours, and focused on various landscapes from Canada's east, north and west coasts. The collection was beautiful, and captured landscapes with various geometric designs.

I would love to bring my fine arts class to the gallery for I think it would be a great opportunity to teach students about art appreciation. In particular, how one may or may not be drawn to a particular style of art and even if we cannot identify with a particular style we can still appreciate the creativity, time, connections and meaning that the artist invested in it.

The gallery also gives students the opportunity to explore their own creativity in the Atrium. An area that provides a hands-on studio program that is inspired by the gallery's exhibitions. This is a nice way for students to practice some of the techniques that they saw or learned in the gallery.

Visual arts

I have always found that visual arts has had a profound positive effect on me, and it wasn't until I read the rationale behind why we teach visual arts to our students that I realized why.

Through the process of visual arts, students become aware of the ideas and emotions expressed in visual images and gain the knowledge, skilled, and attitudes needed to engage in and appreciate the visual arts throughout their lives.

To be able to have this awareness to appreciate and see the various forms of art is something I value and hope to pass on to my students. 

For me I appreciate the images nature have to offer in the world around us such as in this fall photo of the river. This is something I would love to do for an integrated fine arts and literacy lesson, where studies are to capture something from the outdoors either a drawing, painting or photograph and write a story about it.