Visual Arts

The middle school students art for one quarter in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade years.  Students continue their studies using a variety of methods, materials, and techniques including painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, and sculpture.  Further development and understanding of how to utilize Art Elements (line, shape, color, value, form, texture, space) and Principles of Design (balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, unity) are explored within each project.  Students continue to create art from observation, abstraction, invention, and expression.  The use of drafting and revising are common habits for middle school students.  So are opportunities where students view, discuss, critique, and reflect on art to develop their understanding of arts concepts and make their thinking visible.