Arts Attack Complete - Grade 8

The Arts Attack Grade 8 curriculum provides an age-appropriate balanced approach to teaching art – emphasizing both the fundamentals of art and creative expression. Taught to the right side of the brain, it emphasizes the art elements and principles, drawing technique, self-expression, artist appreciation, art history, multi-cultural art, and media diversity.

Grade 8 features a 4 lesson drawing workshop and several types of sculpture – clay, subtractive and wire & fabric. The lesson This is My School is a photography lesson and I Madonnari requires students to work together in a sidewalk art project. Multi-cultural art lessons include Storytellers, Spirit Dolls, and Aboriginal Art. There is another Series on a Theme, and students study and learn the styles of the artists Wassily Kandinsky, David Hockney, Albert Bierstadt, Andy Warhol, J.J. Audubon, Edward Hicks, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, and Roy Lichtenstein and then create original artworks in their styles. Students definitely get exposed to more modern art than in any previous Grade level.

Another feature of Grade 8 is a comprehensive overview of careers in art and how to prepare oneself to build a portfolio and get into a good art school.

The Arts Attack Complete grade 8 curriculum provides 24 lessons with 7.4 hours of video instruction.