Classes & Workshops Offered Seasonally When Available
A Conceptual Framework for the Creative Arts
Classes & Workshops Offered Seasonally When Available
Culinary Art
JR HIGH
Students will learn the basics of nutrition and food preparation and menu planning. The importance of eating healthy, and having a well balanced diet are just some of the information the children will walk away with as well as some practical skills.
Art Basics
JR HIGH
A foundational workshop with a goal to introduce and establish children with a love of art. This course will include lessons on sculpting, sketching, painting, and collage. The students will be taught technique which will be coupled with exercises to encourage them in their artistic expression.
Poetry Class/Creative Writing
JR HIGH
An introductory poetry class designed to expose students to a wide variety of age appropriate material which conveys the diverse purposes and manifestations of poetic expression. Each week a poem will be read, studies, and analyzed and the students will have the opportunity to generate their own poems in response to the material. Favorite works will be revised and combined into a class portfolio at the end of the course.
Dance/Hip-hop
JR HIGH
Hip-hop dance class! Brush up your technique or learn the basics.. Come out and enjoy this fun and high-energy class as we exercise our bodies, and learn that they can be used in a way that brings honor to God and reach others for Jesus.
Drama
JR HIGH
This drama class will help students explore character development and portrayal through improvisation. Students will also explore themselves and the world around them as they learn to communicate biblical truths through the dramatic arts.
Ceramics
JR HIGH / SR HIGH
In this Ceramics class students will learn the basics of hand building and wheel techniques, as well as an understanding of production-based ceramics for business endeavors.
Fiction workshops
JR HIGH / SR HIGH
This fiction course is designed to provide a creative and open atmosphere for your child to explore the art of writing. The focus of the course will be on developing the talents of the students through an enthusiastic approach to the craft of writing. There will be an emphasis on the freedoms available to the beginning writer, and the use of everyday activities - such as the internet, journaling, and conversation - to inspire imaginative works of fiction. The workshop will culminate with the publication of the student’s final work in an anthology of short stories.
Piano Lessons
BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE
Half hour Piano lessons are offered for beginner to intermediate students.
Artistic Endeavors
SR HIGH
This class incorporates a variety of art processes where the students produce a product; and learn about marketing, sales, revenue and a variety of other business skills necessary for starting a small business in the arts.
A Conceptual Framework for the Creative Arts:
Life Skills in Art:
One of our goals in the Creative Arts Department at the BACC is to inspire students to gain various practical life skills through the creative arts process. Currently we offer a number of classes that incorporate art production and micro-business training.
Art as Therapy:
If we mentioned the term Greek tragedy, most people think of the ancient amphitheatres, actors in mime, and the dramatic and sometimes frightening masks. These are all a part of the act, but there is also a lesser known, but equally important, element to the ancient plays. Many times the actors in Greek tragedies were soldiers returning from war who, through the act of role-playing, would be re-acclimated to society. Why? What is the secret healing power of the arts?
We experience trauma, whether its violence, abuse, divorce, death of a loved one, or other forms of trauma, in two major fields of experience. The one is verbal, or cognitive and linguistic, and the other is non-verbal impact of trauma. One of the primary reasons we struggle with assisting someone in recovery from traumatic experiences is because most recovery efforts focus on the traditional verbal/linguistic side of the experience. Most people who go through traumatic experiences struggle to verbally express the traumatic experience.
The Greeks learned thousands of years ago that it is easier for people who have experienced trauma to confess it/express it (the first step toward healing) through various non-verbal expressions. This applies today with inner city at risk youth and adults. Drama allows them to practice, or rehearse, proper behaviors. Through dance the physical and emotional forms are wedded and become as clear as the verbal. Visual arts allow deep traumas to be pictorially expressed, resulting in an easier verbal expression, and creative writing allows the story to be expressed on the page.
The arts have a strong power to surface the hidden traumas of ones life, to help individuals open up and share with someone they trust, and begin to take the initial steps in the healing process.