This class continues to introduce students to a variety of media while building on the basics learned in Introduction to Art 1 including studio work, visual art vocabulary, and critique. Non-western art and cultural influences, early Christian art, Islamic art, and the Byzantine, Early Medieval, and Romanesque periods will be reviewed.

This class will continue to teach the basic techniques of visual art using a variety of media. Students spend more time building technical skills used in drawing, design, collage, watercolor painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics and will focus more on the aesthetics and concepts of their work. The Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo periods will be reviewed.

Designed for students with a serious interest in art, this class continues to build on skills learned in Introduction to Art 1 and 2 with an emphasis on strengthening basic drawing skills, anatomy and figure drawing, art as a means of communicating, and developing a personal style. Preparing to exhibit in the Spring Art Show is also a major project.Art school research and portfolio preparation may be a major focus for those students interested in pursuing a career in the arts. Work presentation and critiquing are emphasized. Art history review will include Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, photography, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, abstract art, and sculpture.

Portfolio and art school preparation will be the main focus of this course designed for those students interested in pursuing the study of art. Each student will work on developing his or her own style through sketching, studies, and creating works in styles of other artists. Concentration in a media of the student’s choice will be encouraged. As always, work presentation and critiquing will be emphasized. Art from 1900-1950, modern and post-modern architecture, and art from the 1950’s to the present will be reviewed. There will also be weekly reading and discussions about aesthetics.

Students interested in expressing themselves through clay will explore hand building of vessels, tiles, and relief's using pinch, coil and slab methods; and wheel throwing of cylinders, mugs, bowls and plates. Studies will also include some history of this ancient art form, the properties of glazes and engobes, kiln operation, and studio organization.

This course will focus on strengthening hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques with an emphasis on experimentation and aesthetics. Students will also be responsible for maintaining a clean and orderly studio, recycling clay, making test tiles, and loading and firing the kiln. The history and science of ceramics will also be reviewed.

This course is designed to give students the knowledge they would need to produce a play. The course covers producing the play (the production, pre-rehearsal activities, and rehearsal); producing a musical (types of musical theater, planning for the musical play, directing the musical play, and staging the musical play); stage settings (scenic design, constructing the set, stage safety, and purposes of scenery); lighting and sound (stage lighting effects, lighting equipment, basic lighting principles, planning the lighting plot, sound, sound equipment, and stage effects); costuming (effective costuming, obtaining the costumes, and caring for the costumes); and make-up (the basics, the six steps to make-up, and special make-up problems).

This course is designed to give students knowledge and skills of stage acting. The course covers voice and diction (developing an effective voice, using your voice effectively, improving your diction, and voice and diction in acting) and acting (the special language of acting, characterization, building up your part, physical acting, acting techniques, communicating, onstage, accent and dialects, and rehearsing). Students work toward a final production of scenes form the American Theater. The course helps students build creative thinking skills, public speaking skills, and overall confidence.