Burlington Public Schools
Art & Design Program
  • District Art Show 2022
    • Elementary Art Gallery 2022
    • Middle School Art Gallery 2022
    • High School Studio Art Foundation 2022
    • High School 2D Art 2022
    • High School 3D Art 2022
    • High School Digital Art 2022
    • High School Photography 2022
  • District Art Show 2020
    • Elementary Art Gallery 2020
    • Middle School Art Gallery 2020
    • High School 2D & 3D Design 2020
    • High School Ceramics 2020
    • High School Drawing Painting Fashion 2020
    • High School Graphic Design 2020
    • High School Photography 2020
    • High School Art Fellows 2020
    • In Memoriam
  • About the Program
    • BPS ArtBlog
    • Teacher Blogs
    • Contact
  • Enrichment
  • Resources for BPS Art Teachers
    • Burlington Public Schools
    • Resources
    • Standards >
      • Core Course Objectives
      • Elementary Framework
      • Middle School Framework
      • High School Framework
      • Key Terms
      • National Art Standards
    • Evaluation >
      • Evaluation Calendar
      • SMART Goals
      • Great 8
      • Model Teacher Rubric
      • Evidence Collection
      • Forms
    • District-Determined Measures >
      • What Are DDMs?
      • Our DDMs
      • Implementation
      • Alignment with Educator Plan
    • Curriculum
    • Lesson Planning >
      • Lesson Plan Outline
      • Mastery-Based Teaching
      • Sample Lessons
    • Engagement
    • Creativity
    • Assessment
    • Chemical Inventory

 About Burlington's Art & Design Program
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BPS ArtBlog
Art Teacher Blogs
Contact Information

We Believe:

Art is a vital part of every child’s development.

Art is a way of understanding one’s self, one’s society and other cultures.

Art provides the means for expressing and communicating thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

​Art education provides the gifts of vision, appreciation, and joy for the student to take into the world.

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Art is universal and diverse. It's present in the design of a chair, on a movie screen, in town squares and in city museums. It can be functional, spiritual, beautiful, and expressive at the same time. Visual imagery is one of the most basic forms of communication, a universal language that can be understood across cultures and generations. Long before the written word, there was the created image. Art is a record of our culture, and a bridge between the past and present. It gives us a handle on who we are right now, and on what we might become. As well, it helps us to recognize and appreciate the content and beauty of the world around us, and, in so doing, art strengthens the bond between the self and the world.

Art-making addresses the need to create which is part of the human experience. It engages higher levels of learning through decision-making, aesthetic and emotional response, and through investigation, interpretation, imagination and problem-solving. Art is a means of self-expression, and one which the individual may find more accessible and friendlier than other avenues. It may be used in combination with these other avenues to clarify, elaborate on, and strengthen the communication of a position or feeling.

The school art room is a forum for testing new ideas, and an environment in which the student has much control over his/her learning experience. Art gives the student limitless opportunities to challenge oneself, and encourages constant self-evaluation. This kind of learning is integral to true self-awareness, to understanding ourselves and to discovering our potential.

It is our aim to foster the intellectual, emotional, and social growth of our students through continuous, structured, and sequential learning in the visual arts, connecting studio work with a study of art historical, contemporary, and applied arts topics to enhance understanding and appreciation. Our teaching methods involve presentation and discussion on relevant artists, art periods and styles. After tackling similar problems in their own classwork, the students participate in a class critique of student work, reinforcing the connection between aesthetics, art criticism, art history and appreciation, and the students' own art production.
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