High school students who take four years of Arts score 100 points higher on the SAT

The Arts teach the skills essential for success in the global marketplace: risk-taking, out-of-the-box creative thinking, team problem solving, excellence as the standard and academic discipline

Students who are involved in the Arts have improved self-esteem and are less likely to skip school or engage in disruptive classroom behavior

Students who take Art have improved attention spans, increased interest in school and foundations of success on which to build

Participation in the Arts promotes tolerance for other cultures, Art is about working together, about communication, about bridges and connections.

 

July, 2006

Cerritos College High School Art Exhibit

 
 


In 2006 Cerritos College in Norwalk California presented their inaugrual exhibition of the visual art of community high school arts programs. Participating high schools included: Bellflower, Gahr, John Glenn, La Mirada, Mayfair and Paramount.

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This exhibit was juried by the art instructors at each of the participating high schools. The students were provided a professionally hung exhibit and the opening reception included a string quartet, a table of appetizers as well as the presence of art teachers and parents. The students chosen for this exhibit were given, perhaps, the first public exposure of their work in a very respectfully curated and presented enviornment. We hope that these students will have many more exhibitions of their work in years to come.


Importantly for the college, the students were given materials on the programs available at the college. This therefore also became a recruitment tool for the college to promote their programs and interest some of the best students from the surrounding communities.

 

 


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Past Featured Art Education Profiles:

March: Fayette Academy Visual Art Program

June 2005, Teaching Watercolor to Elementary School Students

May 2005, Cerritos College Spring 2005 Student Show

October 2004, Carlsbad ArtSplash 2004 Children's Program

July 2004, Oregon Art Education Association's Youth Art Month

June 2004, The Country Shop

October 2003: Sedona Fine Arts Annual Scholarship Program

May 2003: Lakewood Artist Guild's Student Art Scholarship Program

March 2003; Camlin's All India Art Contest

January, 2003: Ms. Becky Kennedy's "House on Clay" Program

December, 2002 Linda Vista Leaders - Montgomery Academy

November, 2002 Multicultural lessons at Belmont Hill Elementary

October-September, 2002 Color Pencil Society work with Children at Risk

August, 2002 Peace Through Art program of the International Child Art Foundation

July, 2002 Native American Students at the Southwest Museum