TUSD Fine Arts / OMA

American Art Experience ARTSmobile:  Innovation and Incorporation

While examining and learning about the four areas of art, students will explore the answers to these questions: What art BEGAN in America? What American art traditions were influenced by immigrants? What art is uniquely American? How does this art also depict the history of America, both in its creation and in what it reveals?

The original American art form featured in each art field will be:

Dance         Tap

Music          Jazz

                                                            Art               Abstract

                                                            Expressionism/ Pop Art

                                                            Drama        Musical Theatre

Contact: teri.shepardmcbride@tusd1.org  

UApresents School Matinees are back at Centennial Hall!

UApresents School Matinees are offering three shows for students the 2013-2014 season! The School Matinee program offers free and low-cost performances for K-12 students. The performances start at 10:30 and are an hour long.

 For questions, email uapschoolmatinee@email.arizona.edu or call the Ticket Office at (520) 626-3560 for registration questions or Education Department at (520) 626-6904 for questions about the shows or program

TUSD FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS/OMA

 VISUAL ART LESSONS

In the coming weeks Fine and Performing Arts will post some unique and exciting visual art lessons highlighting a different artist every few weeks.  The lessons include Performance Objectives, Biography of the Artist, Language Arts Lesson, Visual Arts Lesson, Geography Lesson, History Lesson and EMC materials associated with the Art Lesson. Tayo Tekovi Quaye is our first artist.

TAYO TEKOVI QUAYE

Tayo Quaye

1954-

Tayo Quaye is a native of Nigeria. His childhood was during the 1960’s civil war.  He attended Yaba Art School between 1976 and 1981, specializing in Painting and has exhibited widely in Nigeria, USA, United Kingdom as well as Trinidad and Tobago.

He studied art by accident.  “I discovered that art is part of me and I am part of art” when I got into high school.  Initially, he did not take art seriously because he never thought of becoming a professional artist.  He had thought perhaps Banking, Economics or International Relations.  The thought of belonging to a particular art school did not cross his mind because his impression of art was that of social order or social disorder, “what I can see and what I can feel.”  He presents his culture in his art.  After receiving a “good” rating on his artwork, knowing he was capable of “great” motivated him to do more in art.

Quite a lot of things inspired him.  Injustice inspires him to do a lot of things.  Tayo’s daily experiences inspired him at the initial stage.  He also enjoys reflecting on cultural, social, and political activities.  From time to time, he still goes back to cultural events within the society.

Tayo’s aim is to create a work that can stand the test of time; works that can give pleasure and record events of today either good or bad.  That is, “when I am not around”, that particular work should be able to speak for itself.  Tayo feels uncomfortable when injustice is done and this is what he tries to express with his art.

While both artists Matisse and Picasso worked with the linocut medium, Quaye’s linocut artworks appear somewhat subdued as far as individual line definition is concerned, leaving the viewer to discern the boundaries of individual persons, places, and things on his own.

There is pathos and horrors of war, but if one searches carefully enough, there is also beauty and even humor—a difficult concept to create.  The concepts of political unrest, persecution, and war are prevalent in Quaye’s works, yet there is still the underlying art that is the reward of the viewer.  Many of the works portray the daily lives of families.

Tayofinal lesson.pdf