The “Arts” in Wynnton Arts Academy
Wynnton Arts Academy is a Fine Arts Magnet School featuring an innovative program in which content and standards from the fine arts are integrated with core subject curriculum standards. Students experience drama, dance, music, and visual arts instruction each week with additional specialty class, extended day, and performance opportunities. Experiences with artful, visible thinking strategies enable our students to explore and understand the world in new ways. Arts integration raises student achievement and increases engagement and motivation while cultivating multiple intelligences. The arts promote self-discipline, creativity, and the confidence to succeed. Academic excellence in a learning environment of mutual respect accomplished through the arts ~ The Dramatic Difference!
“If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.”
-Mia Michaels
“Every child is an artist.”
-Pablo Picasso
“Through drama, students become a part of the learning process rather than mere observers or inactive receptacles of the rich experience of learning; in this way, their learning was deeper, more sustained, and infinitely more complex.”
-Jeffrey Wilhelm
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
-Plato