Public / Private School Press:
Thanks to an art program called Meet the Masters, put on largely by volunteers with support from the school and grant funding, students at Rancho Elementary are learning about famous artists and putting their art techniques into practice.
The Orange County-based Meet the Masters has introduced students to famed artists —- from painters to potters hailing from several counties —- such as Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Maria Martinez, Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Leonardo da Vinci, Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso.
At Rancho Elementary, volunteer Elizabeth Harrigan, the mother of twin fifth-grade boys at the school, has led the program for the last two years, offering art instruction with the help of other parent volunteers. Read more.
The Crown Valley Elementary PTA is proud to provide the Meet the Masters Program to the Students of Crown Valley Elementary. Meet the Masters has a twenty-year history of providing interactive, multi-media art education to elementary school and homeschool students nationwide. As California’s leading art program, MTM has introduced Monet, van Gogh, and 40 other Master Artists to more than 2,000,000 Kindergarten thru 8th grade (and sometimes 12th grade) public, private, and homeschooled students. Read more.
Bonnie Steele began Meet the Masters as a volunteer project for her daughter’s sixth grade class at Del Lago School in Mission Viejo. Art education was suffering cut-backs, and Steele’s intense interest in art, along with her background as a credentialed teacher and exhibited artist, sparked the idea for Meet the Masters. While teaching her program Steele discovered that sixth grade was sometimes too late to reach children. By the age of 12 some students had already decided they either had creative talent or didn’t. She began to see the need to begin the program at an earlier age. Read more.
Homeschool Press:
Meet the Masters art software program is an inexpensive way to bring art appreciation, history and techniques into the classroom no matter what the age of the students are. Read more.
You can encourage your little artists along the way with the “Van Gogh Victory Award”, the “Magnificent Monet Award”, the “Homer Honor Award”, the “Prized Picasso Award”, the “Creative Cassatt Award”, and the “Marvelous Mondrian Award”. What a self-esteem booster when they see their own masterpieces hung up for family attention! Read more.
The program recommends doing one artist unit a month so one binder will cover a year’s worth of art/art history. Binders are packaged by age groups: ages 5-7, ages 8-9, and ages 10-adult; however, don’t worry about going slightly beyond or beneath an age group. We used the ages 8-9 binder and my kids, both 11, were challenged and enjoyed the program. We give it a 5 out of 5-star rating! Read more.