0101355 CREATING TWO-DIMENSIONAL ART
Grades: 9-12 .5 credit
Students investigate a wide range of media and techniques, from both a historical and contemporary perspective, as they engage in the art-making processes of creating two-dimensional works, which may include drawing, painting, printmaking, and/or collage. Student artists reflect on their own and others’ artwork through critical analysis to achieve artistic goals related to craftsmanship, technique, and application of 21st-century skills. This course incorporates hands-on activities & consumption of art materials.
0101365 CREATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART
Grades: 9-12 .5 credit
Students in Creating Three-Dimensional Art, investigate a wide range of media and techniques, from both an historical and contemporary perspective, as they engage in the art-making processes of creating 3-D artworks, which may include sculpture, assemblage, and/or ceramics. Student artists reflect on their own artwork and that of others through critical analysis to achieve artistic goals related to craftsmanship, technique, and application of 21st-century skills. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
0104335 DRAWING 1
Grades 9-12 .5 credit
Students experiment with the media and techniques used to create a variety of two-dimensional (2-D) artworks through the development of skills in drawing. Students practice, sketch, and manipulate the structural elements of art to improve mark making and/or the organizational principles of design in a composition from observation, research, and/or imagination. Through the critique process, students evaluate and respond to their own work and that of their peers. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
0104365 PAINTING I
Pathway: Drawing I or Creating 2-D Art
Grades: 9-12 .5 credit
Students experiment with the media and techniques used to create a variety of two-dimensional (2-D) artworks through the development of skills in painting. Students practice, and manipulate the structural elements of art to improve mark making and/or the organizational principles of design in a composition from observation, research, and/or imagination. Through the critque process, students evaluate and respond to their own work and that of their peers. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
0102305 CERAMICS/POTTERY 1
Grades 9 - 12 .5 Credit
Students explore how space, mass, balance, and form combine to create aesthetic forms or utilitarian products and structures. Instructional focus will be on ceramics and/or pottery. Media may include, but are not limited to, clay and/or plaster, with consideration of the workability, durability, cost, and toxicity of the media used. Student artists consider the relationship of scale (i.e., hand-held, human, monumental) through the use of positive and negative space or voids, volume, visual weight, and gravity to create low/high relief or freestanding structures for personal intentions or public places. They explore sharp and diminishing detail, size, position, overlapping, visual pattern, texture, implied line, space, and plasticity, reflecting craftsmanship and quality in the surface and structural qualities of the completed art forms. Students in the ceramics and/or pottery art studio focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. The students will be responsible for art materials in this course. Wheel throwing and hand building methods of constructing will be covered.
0102310 Ceramics/Pottery 2
Pathway: Ceramics/Pottery 1
Grades: 10-12 1 credit
Instructional focus is on ceramics processes and techniques, covering wheel-throwing, hand building, beginning glaze formulations and a variety of decorating techniques. Some of the decorating techniques that will be covered are, slip trailing, slip sgraffito, shellac resist and mishima. Students explore utilitarian works of art such as jewelry, cups, bowls and plates as well as nonfunctional pieces designed to strengthen the students’ knowledge of nonobjective, abstract, or representational forms and structures. Students will learn the basic history of ceramics dating from 5000 BC to the industrial revolution, and be able to understand how ceramics and pottery helped form the civilized world through functional pottery and nonfunctional works of art. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal work. This course incorporates hands-on activities and students will be responsible for consumable art materials.
0102320 Ceramics/Pottery 3
Pathway: Ceramics/Pottery 2
Grades: 10-12 1 credit (Honors Credit)
Instructional focus is on advanced ceramics processes and techniques, covering wheel-throwing, hand building, glaze formulation and applications, and the firing process. Students explore utilitarian works of art such as cups, bowls and plates as well as nonfunctional pieces designed to strengthen the students’ knowledge of nonobjective, abstract, or representational forms and structures. Students are encouraged to experiment with techniques and glaze formulations in order to develop a personal voice in clay. Students will learn about the role of ceramics as contemporary art form and be able to identify several contemporary ceramic artists. Students will create a personal website for their Ceramic pieces. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal work. This course incorporates hands-on activities and students will be responsible for consumable art materials.
0111330 Sculpture 3 (Ceramics/Pottery 4)
Pathway: Ceramics/Pottery 3
Grades: 12 1 credit (Honors Credit)
Instructional focus may include content in ceramics, pottery, or other related media. Students address 4-D, the inter-relatedness of art and context, and may also include installation or collaborative works, virtual realities, light as a medium (i.e., natural, artificial, or reflective), or flexible, entered, or activated space. Other concepts for exploration include tension, compression or expansion, intrusions or extrusions, grouping, proximity, containment, closure, contradiction, and continuity. Ceramic and/or pottery artists experiment with processes, techniques, and media, which may include, but are not limited to, casting and kiln-firing techniques, and mold making. Craftsmanship and quality are reflected in the surface and structural qualities of the completed art forms. Students in the ceramics and/or pottery art studio focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
0104300 ADVANCED PLACEMENT DRAWING
Grades: 9-12 1 credit
The purpose of this course is to give advanced and serious art students the opportunity to develop quality, concentration, discipline, and breadth in a drawing portfolio. Students will solve a wide variety of visual problems and demonstrate mastery of drawing techniques for preparation, presentation, and evaluation of portfolio content. Students will learn skills needed to communicate meaning in conceptual art forms, produce works judged to have aesthetic quality, demonstrate concentration by pursuing in depth a single concern, demonstrate discipline and commitment to the goal of artistic expression through drawing.
0109350 ADVANCED PLACEMENT 2D ART & DESIGN
Grades: 9-12 1 credit
The purpose of this course is to give advanced and serious art students the opportunity to develop quality, concentration, discipline, and breadth in two dimensional design. Students will solve a wide variety of visual problems and demonstrate mastery of techniques for preparation, presentation, and evaluation of portfolio content. Students will learn skills needed to communicate meaning in conceptual art forms, produce works judged to have aesthetic quality, demonstrate concentration by pursuing in depth a single concern, demonstrate discipline and commitment to the goal of artistic expression through drawing.
0109360 ADVANCED PLACEMENT 3-D ART & DESIGN
Grades: 9-12 1 credit
Students will gain higher level thinking skills and add diversity to their college applications while having fun solving a variety of visual and three dimensional problems. There is no actual test for this course. Students will create a variety of three-dimensional works throughout the year, take digital images of the work and submit these images to the College Board for evaluation. No previous art experience necessary, however, a desire to learn is a must. Students who use their class time wisely usually do not have homework.
0100300 ADVANCED PLACEMENT ART HISTORY
Grades: 10-12 1 Credit
The AP Art History course welcomes students into the global art world to engage with its forms and content as they research, discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art making, and responses to and interpretations of art. By investigating a specific core content of 250 works of art, along with supplemental images, students will characterize diverse artistic traditions from prehistory to the present. Students learn and apply skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis to engage with a variety of art forms, developing understanding of individual works and interconnections across history. Gardner's Art through the Ages 15th edition will be utilized in the classroom, as well as a wide variety of supplemental sources.