Visual Arts

This course is opened for juniors and seniors who have high interest in pursuing art and design in college. Portfolio Prep gives them background knowledge on art portfolios as well as creative projects that result in artworks they can use in their portfolios. All artwork is photographed for the student.

The Fashion Art and Design course allows students to go through the motions and learning of proportional drawing, fashion illustration and marketing, and designing. Students leave this course with creativity, collaboration, and communication skills.

The Interior Art and Design course allows students to be creative in creating their own floor plan for a person of interest. This allows an outlet for a students’ personalized style. Through this process students learn about architecture, well-known interior designers and their inspirations.

Clayworks is an introductory course to ceramics. Through creative projects students learn how to slip, score, coil and slab build, glaze, and other skills that come with working with clay. Students are also introduced to the wheel at the end of the semester.

This course is open for students to take after taking Clayworks. Students become more proficient in throwing by working weekly on the wheel, as well as completing other creative projects.

Drawing and Painting is a course where students are able to explore multiple art mediums, from drawing and painting to printmaking. Through these projects students learn about different artists and better their skills.

This course is open for students to take after taking Drawing and Painting. Students further explore art mediums through other creative projects, and improving their artistic skills. Within this course students become more self-regulated in their artistic decisions.

Within this course students work three dimensionally on projects using a variety of different materials. They work on individual pieces all well as a class installation.

Exploring Studio in Art is a basic introduction class where students are able to try a variety of art mediums through many different projects. Students are introduced to different styles and techniques in art.

This course teaches the student how to shoot with a manual film camera. Students will learn camera settings, lighting, exposures, film, composition and elements of art in addition to learning how to develop film in our state-of-the-art dark room.

This course takes photography to a higher creative level. Students will learn techniques such as hard coloring, multiple exposures, Polaroid transfers, negative manipulation, and colored toning.