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 skills, color theory and drawing technique. The class also focuses more specifically on the principles of art: rhythm, movement, pattern, balance, proportion, variety, emphasis and harmony. Students continue to use a variety of media and styles including pencil drawing, acrylic painting, three dimensional design, printmaking, animation and art history. Students will effectively present matted artwork.

This course continues to teach techniques of visual art using a variety of media. Students will concentrate on collage, transitional art, decorative painting, sculpture, and the relationship of visual arts with the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Students will spend increased time building technical skills, especially in drawing and painting. This full year course continues to focus on art history and concentrates on interdisciplinary connections between art and other subjects. Students will be required to read the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Chapter quizzes will be taken in class.

This class continues to build technical skills in art using a variety of media. In this course we specifically focus on anatomy, figure drawing, watercolor painting, printmaking, oil painting, portraiture and installations. This full year course continues to focus on art history. Art school research and portfolio preparation my be a focus of those students interested in pursuing a career in the arts. Students will be required to read the novel The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser. Subsequent lesions or field trips will reinforce the reading.

This course is designed for the serious art student who plans to major in the visual arts in a higher education setting or plans to pursue the arts as a career. Portfolio and art school preparation will be the main focus. This course also continues to build technical skills using a variety of media. This full year course also continues to focus on art history. Students should come into this course with a detailed list of portfolio requirements and deadlines for each school they plan to apply to. Students may need to purchase specific portfolio binders to send to colleges.

This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of ceramics. Student will explore hand-building vessels and relief’s using pinch, coil and slab methods. Students will learn vocabulary and techniques to create hand built pottery. Students will learn the function of a variety of tools and materials as well as kiln firing basics, glazing and studio organization. Studies will also include the history of the ancient art form.

This course continues to build on the fundamentals of ceramics. Students will continue to explore hand-building vessels and relief’s using pinch, coil and slab methods. Students will also be introduced to wheel thrown ceramics. Students will learn to create basic bowls, mugs, vases and plates on the pottery wheel. This course emphasizes art history and cultures from around the world by creating pottery inspired by specific cultures.

This course is designed for students who wish to continue their study of the ceramic arts at an advance level. Students will continue to explore hand building techniques and wheel thrown pottery. Students will focus on more elaborate sculpting techniques and more elaborate sculpting techniques and more elaborate wheel throwing techniques including base trimming and lid making. Students will learn about various firing products and kin loading operation and management.

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.