Oak Harbor High School offers a variety of art courses to fit the needs of all students.  7th grade art is offered as an elective course to 7th grade students for a semester. Art Foundations is offered to any high school student to fulfill the fine arts credit needed for graduation.  Advanced 2d and 3d courses are offered to students who wish to explore, and refine, skills that were learned in Art Foundations. Graphics Design and Advertising is the newest course offered at OHHS.  This course is designed for students to learn about the psychology, and subliminal cues, associated with advertising. Students learn how to navigate Photoshop and Illustrator, and create flyers, business cards, posters, product brand designs, as well as other graphics.

High School Art Classes

OHHS art students have been busy learning new techniques, materials, artists, eras, among many other aspects of art.  Some favorite projects this year include ice cream value studies, subtractive soap sculptures, lego perspective drawing, clay vessels, silver solder pendants, copper enameling, digital magazine covers, and learning to write in cursive while designing illuminated manuscripts.  

7th Grade Art Classes

7th grade art is new to Oak Harbor High School this year. Students have the opportunity to learn various art media and processes. Students also explore sixteen different artists each semester. The early introduction to art is an outstanding opportunity to give future high school students a jumpstart to their art course work, and portfolio. 

Art Shows/Contests

Oak Harbor High School students have the opportunity to enter into multiple art competitions throughout the course of the year including For the Love of Art at the Pemberville Opera House, The Focus Art Show, The Ninth Congressional District Invitational High School Art Show, AIA Young Architects  Competition, among many other shows. 

Art & Culture Club

The 7th/8th and high school Art & Culture Clubs create many wonderful memories every year. Between weekly meetings and projects, face painting at various events, outstanding halloween parties, Christmas parties, field trips to The Toledo Museum of Art and Amish, fundraisers, community art classes, among other activities, these students have an opportunity to experience it all.  The amount of talent, energy, and excitement about the art & culture club is unmeasurable. 

5 County Invitational Art Show

Oak Harbor High School hosts the Five-County Invitational Art Show every spring.  Art teachers from Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wood Counties fill the the cafeteria area and auditorium lobby with quality artworks created by students and art educators. Various students artwork (both three-dimensional and two-dimensional) are judged. Best-of-Show is awarded at both junior high/middle school and high school levels. 

Fundraising

Oak Harbor High School hosts a variety of events to raise money for different organizations including The Ottawa County Humane Society, and the OHHS Rembrandt award.  Events include an ice cream social that used bowls thrown by students on the potter's wheel, an art auction with animal prints obtained by visiting the Ottawa County Humane Society, clay jewelry sales, and community clay nights. 

Summer Art Camps

Summer art camps are always a huge success.  Students in grades 1st-3rd grade fill the high school art room for an entire week of art fun.  Following the final class, students invite family and friends to enjoy an art reception in the auditorium lobby, including refreshments.  Each art camp has a theme that all projects are based on. These camps are educational, as well as wonderful expressions of creativity from our young community artists. 

Field Trips

7th-12th grade art students have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of field trips throughout their art career, both during and after school. It is important to expose our students to as many different art forms as possible, in person and virtually.