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Fine Arts

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Dance
 
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Theatre
 
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General & Choral Musc
 
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Instrumental
Music
 
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Visual Arts
 

The primary goal of education is to enable children to develop their minds and intellectual capabilities using all forms of creative intelligence as means for achieving this goal.  The expressions of thoughts and feelings take many forms.  Art, music, dance, and theatre communicate thoughts and feelings through visual forms, sounds, and movements. 

For children to develop their mental capabilities and realize their fullest potential, they need to be exposed to many kinds of knowledge, to many ways of knowing their world and expressing their thoughts.  Through experiences in art, music, dance, and theatre, children learn to express themselves in terms of their own ideas and feelings.  All the fine arts – performing and visual – provide knowledge about the world, its cultures, and ways of experiencing them that contribute to an understanding that is unique.

Resources for Parents and Students

Maryland State Fine Arts Standards 

Strathmore Concerts
Every year all second and fifth graders visit The Music Center at Strathmore 

Special Arts Programs
Find out about special programs with a focus on fine arts

Superintendent's Committee for Performances in MCPS (SCPS)
Click here for more information  

Superintendent's Performing Arts Awards Gala
Recognizing outstanding achievements of seniors in high school dance and theatre 

Art Shows
Opportunities for students to show their work in the visual arts to the public

10 Lessons the Arts Teach by Elliot Eisner

25 Action Items to Keep Music in the Schools 

Education Matters: Integrating the Arts Throughout the Curriculum (April 2011)

Theatre and Dance Performance Calendar (pdf)

Arts Edge-Kennedy Center 
Free digital resource for learning in, through, and about the arts