If you have ever wished that you could share special art opportunities along with your child, then this is the class for you!
Exploring Art Together is a class where, together, the parent or caregiver and the child will explore the rich and exciting world of the visual arts without having to worry about not having any art experience. Even if you are experienced in the visual arts, you will learn to see things in new ways along with your child, and to carry this process beyond the classroom studio and into your everyday lives.
Master Visual Arts Educator Dianne K. Greaney has taught art for over 35 years, from Pre-kindergarten to Post Graduate levels. She is a producing artist using many and mixed medias. Her undergraduate degree in Art with a minor in Education is from the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) at Amherst, and her graduate degree in Education with Art focus is from Florida International University (F.I.U.). In 1991, Mrs. Greaney received the National Art Education Association’s Elementary Art Educator of the Year Award for the Southeastern United States.
This Exploring Art Together class will employ a variety of media to help develop both the right and left sides of the brain by teaching perceptual, cognitive, and discrimination skills that will assist with reading ability, while refining and expanding gross and fine motor skills. Utilizing a wide variety of stimuli, such as “realia” (actual artifacts) posters, art prints, and student work, participants will discover interdisciplinary links and connections that will expand their visual vocabulary.
Each of the ten 1 1/2 hour sessions will include three aspects: first, vocabulary building, visual stimulation and introduction to new concepts; second, a hands-on activity that will relate to those concepts; and third, an opportunity for everyone to look at their work and say “How did I do?” and to notice how many different ways people can approach the same project.
This class is designed for children 4 years and 9 months to 6 years old, who have an attention span suitable to the aspects of the class and a basic vocabulary upon which we may build. Class size will be limited to 6 to 8 families so as to insure optimum learning and teacher attention.
Parents and primary caregivers are a child’s first role model for learning. The adult is a critical entity in this program so that what is covered in the class can be expanded upon in the intervening week and the concepts for next class can be anticipated.
Some of the themes may be Little Houses, Stamps, small books, fish, puppets and collage.
Be prepared for a fun and rewarding time!
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More about Diane Greaney:
In addition to teaching Elementary Art in schools and summer camps, Dianne has taught small group and private lessons to children and adults.
She taught workshops to art educators at Local, State, and National Conferences.
She was on the Art faculty at the ’92 Tennessee Arts Academy at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee; taught Graduate level art education at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida; and graduate / undergraduate art education classes for Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
Dianne assembled children’s’ drawings and turned them into a 45’ long x 7’ high ceramic tile mural commemorating the 25th Anniversary of Miami Lakes, Florida. She organized over 300 inter-generational participants to help glaze the project that was listed as a South Florida Treasure by The Miami Herald newspaper.
She designed, produced, and directed the faculty, students and parents, in 4 haunted houses that took up 5 classrooms (as part of a PTA annual carnival).
As Northwest Area Art Specialist, Dianne worked with 45 art teachers in 36 schools (K – 12), and helped develop the CurriculArt curriculum used by 300 Dade County art educators.
She taught Museum Education to grades 3 – 12 for 5 years at the Kislak Museum, focusing on the Kislak’s Pre-Columbian and Contemporary collections
Using the Art Trunk Program, she worked with 5th grade classes to produce “Good Morning Southeast Asia” for the school’s closed circuit television system (including guests from different countries, fashion shows, music events, and much more.
Dianne K. Greaney works in fiber, soft sculpture, calligraphy, graphic Arts, pastel painting, embossed stamp painting, stained glass, and mixed media.
