Curriculum Summary of Current ArtSeed Programs:

1. Sherman Elementary Classroom Arts Integration:
   Artist Marissa Kunz provides hands on art lessons to Sherman's 400+ students. She meets once a week with each homeroom to work on drawing, painting and printmaking projects based on California Content Standards. Curriculum and projects are structured around learning and practicing elements of art (line, shape, form, texture, color, value, space) and principles of art (variety, harmony, contrast, balance, emphasis, movement). Themes include portraits, landscape and still life. She works closely with homeroom teachers to integrate art lessons with subject areas studied in class such as cultural traditions (e.g. Day of the Dead), Science (e.g. Animals and their habitats), Math (e.g. Mandalas and Radial Symmetry), Architectural heritage (e.g. San Francisco Victorians).
2. Burnett Child Care Development Center Pre-K Art Classes:
   Artists Josefa Vaughan and Alexandra Bastias meet with 50 pre-K students once a week working on skills based on California Content Standards for Pre-K arts focusing on artistic perception and creative expression related to geometric shapes, line, color, pattern recognition and tactile practice with fine arts materials. Students learn new vocabulary and are encouraged to explain what they are seeing and doing.
3. Burnett After School Program and Off-site Studio Apprenticeships:
   One-on-one and small group studio apprenticeship sessions for students (of any age who also do not need to be enrolled at Burnett) with artists from the Bayview Hunters Point community and beyond. Sessions are directed toward creating a body of work for exhibition and are at least twice a month (but are usually once a week). Projects have included hands on practice with painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, filmmaking and some three-dimensional media.
4. Seasonal Fine Arts Workshops:
   These classes combine elementary school aged students, teens, adults and seniors. Venues have included the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, UCSF Children's Hospital, Bay Area Community Centers, private schools and charter schools outside the Bay Area. We have proposed and piloted Job Site Creativity Fitness Centers and look forward to prospective corporate partnerships. ArtSeed workshops typically involve guest artists and are project-based. They often include artist demonstrations and/or visitor interactive components. Selected works are included in ArtSeed's end-of-year an exhibition at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability.
5. Summer Fine Arts intensive

Teaching Mission Statement:

Teaching Philosophy and Arts Education Guiding Principles

1. Traditional and Experimental Approaches:
   Use fundamental and classical approaches to fine arts as a necessary step for grasping contemporary art and discovering experimental possibilities for innovative application of new media and technologies. Utilize professional artists and archival materials.
2. Emphasis on One-to-one Learning:
   Work with teachers, parents and assistants to give students individual attention in classrooms. Connect students with artists through the apprenticeship model.
3. California State Content Standards for the Arts and Project-based Teaching:
   Design projects that use sequential CA Content Standards-based development of ideas through collaborative brainstorming, planning and team implementation with an outcome that culminates in public presentation and individual recognition.
4. Interdisciplinary Approach:
   Incorporate themes that involve other fields of knowledge and skills. Show how concepts learned can be transferable to other fields and professions. Utilize artistic principles in the practical application of fundamental academic knowledge.
5. Introduction of New Ideas:
   Introduce students to ideas that stretch assumptions about what children can and cannot understand or appreciate including cultural history, current events and critical thinking skills.