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Art Department


The Long Beach Middle School Fine Arts Department offers a variety of courses that are intended to:

  • Enrich the students' lives
  • Stimulate and encourage the students' creative growth
  • Increase the students' understanding of importance of Art in contemporary living and in our cultural heritage
  • Help the students to enjoy, appreciate and learn to value works of art
  • Develop in students those skills, techniques and understandings which are essential for quality work in the visual arts
  • Identify and encourage students with particular aptitudes for the visual arts
  • Provide guidance for students who have an interest in the vocational aspects of the visual arts. Art courses are open to all students


Our middle school art department offers art classes in grades 6, 7 and 8 and Studio Art. Students participate in many special art events during the course of the school year. On the district level, some of these activities include the Art Supervisors Association All-County Art Exhibition in March, the New York State Art Teacher Association's Portfolio Project in April and the District Art Show in May.

  
NEW YORK STATE LEARNING STANDARDS FOR THE ARTS

1. Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts: Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts and participate in various roles in the arts.

2. Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources: Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

3. Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art: Students will respond critically to works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.

4. Understanding the Cultural Dimension and Contribution of the Arts: Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.

Current News

Eighth Grade Orientation at LBHS

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LBHS recently had the pleasure of hosting the Eighth Grade Class from Lincoln Orens Middle School and Long Beach Middle School for our annual November Orientation. The event was a great success, providing students with valuable insights into high school life.

During their visit, the students:
- Heard from their principal and representatives from administration, counseling, and PPS departments.
- Enjoyed performances by our talented Pep Band, Orchestra, and Chorus groups.
- Received important information from Mr. Myers, LBHS Principal and Ms. McMahon, Coordinator of School Counseling.
- Participated in a student panel discussion, organized by Ms. McMahon, featuring current high school students with diverse experiences.
- Took a brief tour of our high school facilities.

We hope this Orientation helped prepare the all the current eighth graders for their upcoming transition to high school.

 

Date Added: 12/2/2024


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Long Beach Middle School Students Honor Veterans

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Long Beach Middle School seventh grade students placed 50 flags in front of the Long Beach Public Schools District Offices to honor veterans for Veterans Day 2024.
 

 

Date Added: 11/14/2024

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An Out of This World Program!

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On Nov. 4 at 9:29 p.m., this year’s Mission 18 Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) Project launched to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The goal of SSEP is to provide students with an opportunity to participate in America’s space program, where they become architects of an experiment to be conducted in space by astronauts on the International Space Station.

This year’s Long Beach project was designed by Long Beach Middle School students Katrina Casey, Kaylee Cooper, Claire Cristallo and Jasmine Davidson-Smith. The mission patches were designed by Mackenzie Pastuch, a fourth grade student at Lindell Elementary, and Emilia Conneally, a sixth grade student and graduate of West Elementary.

The project will spend approximately five weeks orbiting Earth. When it arrives back in Long Beach, Katrina, Kaylee, Claire and Jasmine, with the help of LBHS Science Research student Jose Aguiluz, will analyze to what extent a weaker gravitational field affected the germination of watercress seeds.

The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with Nanoracks LLC, which is working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a national laboratory.

Date Added: 11/7/2024

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Julia Lang-Shapiro
Director of Comprehensive Arts
516-897-6500
 
Teachers:
Alison Katulka
Scott Knyper
Laura Swan

 

 

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