Visual Arts

Grades 6, 7, or 8
In this course, students learn the characteristics of visual art through a wide range of subject matter, symbols, meaningful images, and visual expressions. In classroom discussions, students use an expanding art vocabulary while describing personal work and the work of others. Students classify two-dimensional and three-dimensional images and construct a three-dimensional form. An introduction of color theory, including identifying and constructing a simple color wheel, is a part of this course.

Grades 7 or 8
Background: Successful completion of Beginning Studio Art
This course teaches the development of visual perception and recording from direct observation, memory, and imagination. Students prepare and develop an idea or theme by collecting and organizing visual resources. In classroom discussions, students use expanding art vocabulary to describe the use of texture, pattern, shape, line, and color. Students apply the basic rules of perspective, proportion, value, and color theory. Students also manipulate distance, size, and placement to create three-dimensional effects on a two-dimensional plane.

Grade 8
Background: Successful completion of Intermediate Studio Art
This course refines a student’s ability to select and control the use of materials, tools, and techniques in their own work to develop, express, and modify ideas, intention, and feeling that were previously developed. Students will continue to understand the visual language of art, expanding art vocabulary while describing their own work and the work of others. Artwork should reflect increased manual and creative skills in addition to expanded knowledge of the use and application of the elements of design. Students use simple perspective systems for symbolizing what they are rendering. Students also manipulate proportion, value, and color to create realistic or expressive images.

Grades 6, 7, or 8
Students will learn the characteristics of visual art through a wide range of subject matter, symbols, meaningful images, and visual expressions. This beginning level course will develop computer based artistic skills and creative concepts. An introduction to color theory, as well as the elements and principles of design, will also be part of this course.

Grades 7 or 8
Background: Successful completion of Beginning Digital Art
This is an intermediate level course that will teach the development of visual perception and recording from direct observation, memory, and imagination. Students will explore software applications that promote visual awareness, as well as expand their skill set in both manual and digital artistic techniques.

Grades 8
Background: Successful completion of Intermediate Digital Art
This advanced level course teaches the development of visual perception and recording from direct observation, memory, and imagination. Students will explore software applications that promote visual awareness, as well as expand their skill set in both manual and digital artistic techniques. The elements and principles of design will be emphasized throughout artistic production and creation as students develop and express intentions and feeling through artistic production and creation.