Our HS Art Show will be on display this year in the media center where they hold the monthly Board of Education Meetings. (Strategic planning…and very intentional!) The show will feature the work created by the students in my creative arts class. It is my goal to draw attention to the devastating cuts suffered by the high school art program in 2010. At the May board meeting, I intend to speak publicly and articulate the differences between an art program and an art class, so that the members of the board of education can recognize that without a sequential program with multiple course offerings, the students are not receiving the best art education they could be. Haddon Township High School doesn’t have an art program anymore, they have an art class …and it’s about time someone stands up and says something about it. No matter how hard I work and try to compensate for the loss, the students deserve more art than they are being offered.
The art show will be on display in our media center from May 17th through June 6th. A reception will be held on June 6th as part of our district wide Arts Extravaganza!
We are naturally geared (and conditioned) to use the end of something as an opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been, what we’ve done and/or how we might change.
