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Wausau East
Art Department (course offerings)
Why Take
Art?
Want a job?
Take Art. 2.8 million Americans work in the Visual Arts industry.
Nearly every product we buy has been developed by a designer
or artist.
The creative
sector will be worth $6.1 trillion internationally in less than
15 years.
More people
are employed in the Visual Arts than in all of the performing
art and sport industries combined.
Want to
be a doctor? Take Art.
Top medical
schools in the nation have their students studying works of art
in order to appreciate that medicine is often more an art than
a science.
Formal art
observation training improves medical students' visual literacy,
mind-eye connection, and diagnostic skills.
C.A.F.E. Cultural
Arts Festival at East
Each May
for the past 19 years the Wausau community has had the opportunity
to participate in the Cultural Arts Festival at East or C.A.F.E.
Wausau East Art students fill the Commons and Auditorium hallways
with their innovative and imaginative creations completed during
the school year. This cumulative exhibit includes: paintings,
ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, along with numerous drawings and
designs. Every student taking an art course has something on
display! Many students sit with their displays to greet guests
and share all their hard work.
Last year,
many art students contributed work to an art sale to raise money
for the Zambia Project affiliated with St. Norbert College. Sales
raised $500.00.
C.A.F.E.
also has many wonderful musical performances - both choral and
instrumental, as well as ethic foods served up with a smile by
Foreign Language, Foods, and Youth Culture Club. In addition
the Technology Ed. Dept hosts an open house and the Greenhouse
has a plant sale. The art tour and musical performances are open
to the public free of charge. Ethnic food will be provided at
a minimal cost as a fund-raising activity for the school's Foreign
Language and ELL programs.
Check our
school schedule and mark your calendar in May. Come and enjoy
the visual splendor, outstanding entertainment, and delicious
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East Art Dept. utilizes Digication online textbook:
Visual Expressions.
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10 Reasons
The Arts Teach Elliot
Eisner
1. The arts
teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
2. The arts
teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts
celebrate multiple perspectives.
4. The arts
teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes
are seldom fixed.
5. The arts
make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form
nor numbers exhaust what we can know.
6. The arts
teach students that small differences can have large effects.
7. The arts
teach students to think through and within a material.
8. The arts
help children learn to say what cannot be said.
9. The arts
enable us to have experience we can have from no other source.
10. The
arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.
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Updated Summer 2011
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