Curriculum
VanGo’s instructors are professional artists and arts educators who bring the very highest quality arts instruction to students. Because VanGo is able to visit its partners consistently week after week, students are receiving comprehensive arts instruction that is making a difference in their lives. They are able to absorb and integrate arts skills on a long-term basis.
Because of the importance of long-term arts instruction, we recommend a minimum of a three month session. However, VanGo also provides a "workshop" format for individual needs.
General Information
Oregon Curriculum Content Standards for the Arts
Current Curriculum Options
Custom Workshops -A workshop is tailored to the amount of time needed for a VanGo visit to your site.
- We offer a minimum of a two-hour class session.
- Each class can be provided over one day or several days or weeks.
- The cost is a minimum of $95 per class session - Assistance from VanGo may be available to help subsidize the cost for NON-PROFIT PARTNERS ONLY. Check with staff for availability.
Unit 1 - Lines
Unit 2 - Shapes & Forms
Unit 3 - Experimenting with Color
Session Two - Exploration:
Unit 1 - Patterns
Unit 2 - Textures
Unit 3 - Balance & Unity
Session Three & More:
Variable
The projects and art forms used in the above units can include:
- Painting
- Drawing
- Collage
- Paper Mache Sculptures
- Mask-making
- Themes such as: endangered animals, marine animals, Africa, Polynesia, plants, circuses, self-portraits, or ANYTHING YOU WANT!!!!
General Information
- The ultimate goal for VanGo is that students will gain mastery of basic art skills.
- VanGo instructors can adapt three-month Units to various program themes. For example, if the host site is exploring a Bug theme, the Lines Unit can incorporate insects into its content matter.
- Each Unit is designed for once-a-week visits by the VanGo arts instructor for each group, for a minimum of 90 minutes of contact time.
- Each Unit is designed to accommodate four individual lessons, for a total of a three-month Unit.
- Ideally, lessons will build upon previously learned material, so students can master the art skills and concepts.
- All units are tailored to the age level of the students, from ages three-teen. Each unit will have a variety of age-appropriate projects.
Oregon Curriculum Content Standards for the Arts
Create, Present and Perform Works of Art:
Uses experiences, imagination, essential elements and organizational principles to achieve a desired effect when creating, presenting and/or performing works of art.
Explore aspects of the creative process and the effect of different choices on one’s work.
Create, present and or perform a work of art that demonstrates an idea, mood or feeling.
Describe how one’s own work reveals knowledge of the arts, orally and in writing.
Aesthetics and Criticism:
Apply critical analysis of art by recognizing essential elements, organizational principles and aesthetic effects in works of art.
Respond to works of art and give reasons for preferences by identifying and describing personal preferences connected with viewing or listening to a work of art using terminology that conveys knowledge of the arts.
Understand the inter-relationships among art forms by identifying the disciplines used in an integrated work of art.
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Understand, and identify, how events and conditions influence the arts.
Distinguish works of art from different societies, time periods, and cultures by identifying social, historical and cultural characteristics in a work of art.
Understand and describe how art from the students’ own community reflects the artist’s environment and culture.
Describe how the arts serve a variety of purposes in the student’s life, community, and culture.
Link to the State of Oregon Department of Education website for further information of Curriculum Content Standards