Welcome to our Art Program at Dobson Academy!

I was trained to teach art with the DBAE program. 

What is comprehensive disciplined-based arts education?

Discipline Based Art Education (commonly called DBAE) is an art education method that goes beyond painting a pretty picture. DBAE promotes higher level thinking skills, original problem solving skills, cultural and global awareness, verbal and non-verbal communication, and other skills that will help students throughout their lives. These goals are accomplished by teaching art history, criticism and aesthetics as well as production

Disciplined-based arts education (DBAE) is a conceptual framework which insures that all students, not just gifted or talented students, are involved in rigorous study of the arts as a part of their general education. It also serves as an innovative but fundamental approach to integrating the arts into the curriculum which will permit students at all levels, in any course of study, to be introduced to, understand and participate in, an art form within the structure of a typical school day.

DBAE means that students study musical, theatrical, dance and visual works of art from the following four discipline perspectives:

Production  - creating or performing

History - encountering the historical and cultural background of works of art

Aesthetics - discovering the nature and philosophy of the arts

Criticism - making informed judgments about the arts

I hope to share my love of art with my students and broaden their understanding of the arts. I invite you to visit our site frequently and feel free to contact me at anytime. My door is always open to students and parents alike.

Sincerely,

Ms. Hackett

Art Teacher

Dobson Academy

Full Name: Heather R. Hackett   Birthplace: Shenandoah, Iowa   Years teaching: 9 (8th year teaching at Dobson Academy)

Education: Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Painting from the Universityy of Nebraska

  Bachelor of Science in Art Education from the University of Nebraska

  Master of Art in Educational Counseling from the University of Phoenix

Cool Facts:

• Started to draw and loved it when I was 4 years old.
  

• I knew I wanted to be a teacher since high school.
  

• I was a member of the Future Teachers of America
  

• I was a foreign exchange student and lived in Greece the summer of 1990.
  

• I was awarded the Gold Key Art Award for two years in a row.
  

• I was awarded the Kodak Honor Award in 1990.
  

• I studied abroad in the Czech Republic and Belgium in 1993.
  

• I sky dived from 15,000 feet in Eloy, Arizona in 2002.
  

I have been very fortunate in my lifetime to have seen and visited some of the

most famous art works and museums around the world.

Ms. Hackett's Top 5 Art Museums around the world:

1. Modern Art Museum in Paris, France

2. Museum of Modern Art in New York City

3. Chicago Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois

4. The Guganheim in Los Angeles, California

5. The Dali Museum in Spain

Favorite Color:

Red

Favorite Artists:

Salvador Dali

Jasper Johns

Georgia O'Keefee

Pablo Picasso

Vincent Van Gogh

Hobbies:

Painting

Traveling

Decorating

Shopping

Scrapbooking

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Students work on their projects in Art class.

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