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Middle School Program

Mission

The mission of GPFAA middle school arts program is to educate, foster, and encourage curiosity to prepare our students to be exceptional artists. Through a unified curriculum that incorporates discipline, integrating art with technology, and a core foundation of the arts, our students are prepared to be lifelong creators.

6th Grade Focus

  • Building knowledge of art vocabulary
  • Exploring ways artists create through critiques and new art techniques
  • Developing skills in drawing, painting, problem solving, and creative processes
  • Participation in exhibitions and competitions

7th Grade Focus

  • Further develop knowledge of art vocabulary
  • Strengthening previous skills learned and discover methods of art planning, new mediums, and techniques
  • Exploring and executing words of art independently and collaboratively 
  • Focus on meaning of art and exploration of ways artists depict works
  • Participation in National Junior Art Honor Society, exhibitions, and competitions

8th Grade Focus

  • Defining previous art vocabulary and skills learned
  • Expressing more creatively with work based on set themes/topics
  • Exploring in depth techniques, compositions, and the elements and principles of design to develop more intricate works of art 
  • Develop ways to communicate the meaning of art through metaphors and deconstruction of conceptual works
  • Participation in National Junior Art Honor Society, exhibitions, and competitions.