Fulton County Schools :: K-12 Curriculum Division :: Art Department

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Philosophy

Philosophical Foundations for

Art Education in Fulton County Schools

Art Education in Fulton County Schools integrates the study of art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art production. As a subject in our schools, art education is based on the belief that looking at, talking about, and making art are processes essential to the well-educated student. The well-educated person is conversant with a breadth of ideas about:

functions and styles of art in a wide range of cultures and societies.
influences, impact, and relationships of art to events and the human condition throughout history.
purposes, functions, and theories of art and artists in society.
knowledge, application and use of a variety of art media, skills, techniques, and processes.

The study of art provides major opportunities to nourish high level thinking. When well taught, skills associated with artistic thinking include the ability to see clearly, analyze, reflect, make judgments, forge connections among ideas and information, and generate new ideas from diverse sources. more

Art News

Elementary School Teacher of the Year

Art teacher, Katina Krass from Lake Forest Elementary School has two exciting things to celebrate – being named her newly opened school’s first-ever Teacher of the Year and being named the school system’s overall Elementary Teacher of the Year. These two honors, however, pale in comparison to the rewards she gets from teaching art education to children.

The daughter of a teacher, Krass grew up with the knowledge that teachers create special bonds and make lasting impressions on those they teach. She has carried this into her classroom and strives to bring, in her own words, “meaning and magic, delight and awareness, and the ideal of beauty and truth to enrich the lives of young minds.”

Krass attended private school as a child and never experienced art education within the school setting. This has led her to seize the opportunities she has with her students and to inspire them to see and experience the world through artistic expression.

Primary Contacts

Department Coordinator: Jessica Booth

Professional Assistant: Connie Plowden

Office Number: 404-763-6767

Fax Number : 404-669-4958

Middle & High School Department Chairpersons