Visual Arts Courses

This course is exploratory in nature, offering a smorgasbord of techniques, media, and theory for students to develop their personal style. This is a great course to develop creative problem-solving skills and innovative thinking. Students will develop a portfolio of work that demonstrates their growth as an expressive and creative artist. Let's get our hands dirty!

Prerequisites: None

This course enables students to develop their skills in producing and presenting art by introducing them to new ideas, materials, and processes for artistic exploration and experimentation. Students will apply the elements and principles of design when exploring the creative process. Students will use the critical analysis process to reflect on and interpret art within a personal, contemporary, and historical context.

​​Prerequisites: None

This course focuses on studio activities in one or more of the visual arts, including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, collage, and/or multimedia art. Students will use the creative process to create art works that reflect a wide range of subjects and will evaluate works using the critical analysis process. Students will also explore works of art within a personal, contemporary, historical, and cultural context.

​​Prerequisites: None

This course enables students to further develop their knowledge and skills in visual arts. Students will use the creative process to explore a wide range of themes through studio work that may include drawing, painting, sculpting, and printmaking, as well as the creation of collage, multimedia works, and works using emerging technologies. Students will use the critical analysis process when evaluating their own work and the work of others. The course may be delivered as a comprehensive program or through a program focused on a particular art form (e.g., photography, video, computer graphics, information design).

​​Prerequisites: AVI 1O and/or AVI 2O

This course focuses on enabling students to refine their use of the creative process when creating and presenting two- and three-dimensional art works using a variety of traditional and emerging media and technologies. Students will use the critical analysis process to deconstruct art works and explore connections between art and society. The studio program enables students to explore a range of materials, processes, and techniques that can be applied in their own art production. Students will also make connections between various works of art in personal, contemporary, historical, and cultural contexts​

​​Prerequisites: AVI 3M

This is an introductory course to illustration techniques and styles. Students will be introduced to the various careers, and the basic skills, related to illustration especially comic book art, cartoon characters, and fantasy books. Students will develop their own illustrations related to ideas presented.

​​Prerequisites: None

This course will focus on the types of illustration used for cartooning, comic books, graphic novels, and animation as well as developing your own creative illustrations.

​Prerequisites: None

This is an introductory course that uses digital media for the creation of fine art and graphic design. Students will use computer software, as the medium, to create artistic images by learning illustration techniques, image manipulation and develop composition skills. Students will also learn how to use these skills and create graphic designs such as posters. Understanding of the elements and principles of design, visual literacy, will teach students how to make effective compositions and analyze others. The history of digital art and graphic design will be studied.

​Prerequisites: None

This course uses digital media for the creation of fine art and graphic design. Students will use computer software, as the medium, to create artistic images by learning various illustration techniques, image manipulation and processes, techniques and styles. Students will also learn how to use these skills and create graphic designs such as posters. Understanding of the elements and principles of design, visual literacy, will teach students how to make effective compositions and analyze others. The history of digital art and graphic design will be studied.​​

​Prerequisites: None

This course uses digital media for the creation of fine art and graphic design. Students will use computer software, as the medium, to create artistic images by learning various illustration techniques, image manipulation and processes, techniques and styles. Students will also learn how to use these skills and create graphic designs such as posters. Understanding of the elements and principles of design, visual literacy, will teach students how to make effective compositions and analyze others. The history of digital art and graphic design will be studied.​

​​Prerequisites: AVI 1O and/or AVI 2O