TAC offers Visual Arts and Music electives for two hours a week in Prep, 9th and 10th grades. The aim of these courses is to help students with developing their knowledge, skills and terminology in visual arts and music, exploring what they see and listen and creating original products of their own in these areas.
The student will also know more about art history which forms the basis of applied studies. Art periods throughout history including Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Modern and Post-Modern are studied with artists which represent each period. The importance of art in societies is explored by establishing connections between the social structure and leading artistic products of each period. Student learning is reinforced with the exhibitions which has a given art movement as its theme.
Our main goal is for our students to find their own areas of strength in art and learn about basic art terminologies so that they can talk about, share and reproduce arts.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali (Spanish painter)
The aim of these courses is to teach students to see by expanding their knowledge and skills and vocabulary in art. They are provided opportunities to reveal their unique skills through the applications under each unit. For this reason, it is important that they have the knowledge of art history, which forms the foundation of applied subjects..
Aligned with the art period being taught, the units include Charcoal Drawing, Color Information, Layout-Composition work with acrylic, Stained Glass technique, constructions using recycled materials, masks, canvas painting, and plate designs.
Special workshops are provided for students who would like to hone their personal artistic skills outside of class hours. They are encouraged to share their artwork, which showcase their growth, through exhibitions and to help expand the appreciation of arts to the wider school community.
"I think that everything and all artistic senses should be accompanied by music..."
The TAC music program aims to enable all students to use music, a unique language for social and universal communication, with pleasure and skill. Channeling their inner energy to music helps young people in coping with the tumultuous moods of their teens and the expectations of early adulthood.
Music program aims to cultivate the following skills:
Cooperative, disciplined and well-organized work habits through individual or group music practice.
Building synthesis between knowledge through music education and other fields of art.
Raising intellectual, spiritual and emotional awareness through learning objectives of the music program.
Using technology to reach information sources; understanding the changing language of music.
Finding out about the cultural background of music; taking a sincere interest and appreciation towards the music of different cultures.
Internalizing the value placed by Atatürk on local and universal music culture.
The aims of the music related activities are to encourage students to create their own music and to provide opportunities to display their musical talents. They include performances for special days and weeks, end of year concert of TAC ECHO music band, individual musical performance of students, and forming new ECHO bands.