Fine Arts

0101300 2-D Studio Art 1

This course is a prerequisite class for all visual arts studio classes and promotes the enjoyment and appreciation of art as students experiment with various media techniques used to create two dimensional artworks, including drawing, painting, collage, and more. Students will learn the foundations of visual composition through the use of the elements of art and principles of design. Students practice, sketch, and manipulate the structural elements of art to improve mark making and the organizational principles of design in compositions from observation, research, and/ or imagination.

0101330 3-D Studio Art 1

Students explore how space, mass, balance, and form combine to create aesthetic forms or utilitarian products and structures. Content may include industrial design, sculpture, assemblage, or building arts. Media may include wood, plaster, paper mache, found objects, and clay.  Student artists consider the relationship of scale to create low/high relief or freestanding structures for personal intentions or public places. Students in the 3-D art studio focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques.

0101310 2-D Studio Art 2

0101320 2-D Studio Art 3 Honors

0101340 3-D Studio Art 2

0101350 3-D Studio Art 3 Honors

These courses are continuations of Level 1 in each discipline. Students are expected to master the fundamentals at each level before advancing to the next. Level 3 of each discipline earns Honors credit, and students are expected to put forth the same effort as they would for any other Honors class.

0100300 AP Art History

AP Art History offers a mix of art and history that’s more than just memorizing dates and names.  This course is designed to give motivated students broad knowledge of a variety of artistic forms and styles across the globe and over the course of human history. Students will develop in-depth, holistic understanding of the history of art from a global perspective. Students will engage with a variety of art forms, developing understanding of individual works through research, discussion, writing and art making. 

Though there are no prerequisites for this course, it is recommended students either have academic background or an interest in the humanities, including art, history, literature, and world cultures.

Students who pass the AP assessments for this course will earn Humanities or General Elective credit at most participating colleges and universities. 

This course contributes to the requirements for the AP Capstone Diploma.

0104300 AP Drawing

0109350 AP 2-D Art and Design

0109360 AP 3-D Art and Design

These courses are designed for the highly motivated student who would like to take art at the college level. The work in an AP Art class requires significantly more commitment and accomplishment than the typical high school art program. You will create a portfolio of college-level work and submit it for evaluation to the College Board.

All AP Art and Design Portfolios contain two sections:

• The Sustained Investigation section (IS digital images) requires you to conduct an inquiry-guided investigation through practice, experimentation, and revision.

• The Selected Works section, work is expected to demonstrate skillful synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas. For both sections of the portfolio, you are expected to share information about your work and the inquiry that guided your investigation.

For the AP Drawing Portfolio, you will submit works that demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas using drawing skills through media such as analog and digital drawing, painting, printmaking, and mixed media work.

For the AP 2-D Art and Design Portfolio, you will submit works that demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas through media such as graphic design, photography, collage, printmaking, and fashion illustration.

For the AP 3-D Art and Design Portfolio, you will submit works that demonstrate synthesis of materials, processes, and ideas through media such as sculpture, architectural rendering and models, metal work, ceramics, and glass work.