Great Art Start

Great Art Start is a materials based art curriculum that helps your child learn valuable critical thinking skills and development through the visual arts. This curriculum was developed  using current research on artistic growth and development in order to help children not only grow as artists but also as inquistive problem solvers in today’s global society.

“Through Art, people can observe many ways of looking at the world and can accept differences as natural rather than threatening.”-Cohen, Strauss Gainer

“The  Arts honor surprise, they traffic in ambiguity, they joust with paradox,  the arts encourage children to work at the edge of incompetence, the arts promote attention to what is not, but which may be.” – Elliot Eisner.

Visual Arts Teach*:

• to observe carefully and record their observations
• to organize ideas and express feelings
• to work with purpose
• to solve problems individually through trial and error methods
• to respect themselves and their own achievements
• to communicate
• to discover their own points of view
• to appreciate other viewpoints and cultures
• to create change in their environment using a wide range of media
• to make discoveries and judgements

* As observed by Cohen and Strauss Gainer