For the fifth year in a row, Carlisle Area School District has been recognized as an Outstanding Visual Arts Community by the Pennsylvania Art Education Association.
The association recognized the district for having an art department with a sustainable budget that offers rigorous and inclusive programs to all students at every grade level.
“We’re thrilled to receive it,” said Ashley Gogoj, K-12 art and design program supervisor. “We have, for a long time, been proud of the work we’ve been doing with students as well as the work students have been creating.
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“We have a lot of students who are interested in going on to study art beyond high school,” she said. “This endorsement gives validation to them that we have a strong robust program that prepares them for a career in the arts. Colleges know how prepared our students are going to be.”
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This recognition would not have been possible without the support and commitment of the school board and administration to provide enough funding and space to operate the art curriculum, Gogoj said. She applies for the annual recognition by reviewing and submitting a checklist of qualifiers.
“It has really been a motivator for us as a department,” she said. The most current endorsement is for the 2022-23 academic year.
Highlights from that period include a student project to sculpt a bison mascot at Lamberton Middle School, student participation in a juried art show hosted by Wilson College in Chambersburg and a student art project to decorate the waiting area of the rehab center of the Carlisle office of the Orthopedic Institute of Pennsylvania.
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National Art Honor Society members were involved in a project to paint the blade of a snowplow operated by PennDOT. Students also raised money for Project SHARE through an Empty Bowls project and had their work on display at the Dickinson College Trout Gallery.
Four teachers — three full-time and one part-time — are assigned to the district’s seven elementary schools providing each K-5 student instruction in art during one class period in every six-day cycle, Gogoj said. This equates to about 30 art classes per academic year.
Meanwhile, two full-time teachers cover Lamberton and Wilson middle schools where each student rotates through half a marking period of 80-minute blocks of art classes, she said. At Carlisle High School, art class moves from being mandatory to an elective each student can take to fill a graduation requirement for two arts/humanities credits, she said.
High school students have the option of taking a single art exploration course or taking multiple-level courses in three concentrations — sculpture and ceramics, drawing and painting, or digital media. Courses are taught by four full-time teachers and by Gogoj who, as program supervisor, has a half-day schedule of classes.
Carlisle school district will be celebrated during the 75th annual art association’s conference next fall in Hershey.
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