Creative Arts (CA) is a group of studio courses that enables students to build a competitive portfolio for submissions to post-secondary institutions across the fields of visual arts and design.
Creative Arts is a Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM program) for senior students considering careers in Fine Arts, Craft and Design. CA provides students with courses that allow for flexibility dependent on students’ portfolio requirement needs as they pertain to College and University applications. In addition, as a SHSM program, Creative Arts offers students certifications along with experiential learning and reach ahead opportunities.
Students in CA can expect to:
- Explore a variety of media and approaches to art making.
- Learn directly from professional artists and designers.
- Attend field trips to art and design colleges and universities, museums and arts centres.
- Exhibit and sell their artwork in a variety of venues including the end of semester CA exhibition, Visual Paradise.
In Creative Arts you will explore: Graphic Design, Illustration, Animation, Fashion, Drawing and Painting , Sculpture and Mould Making, Printmaking, Fibre Arts, Craft, Non-Traditional Media and more!
Tonya Corkey is a Kingston-based artist and arts educator. She graduated from OCAD
University’s Drawing and Painting program (2012) and Queen’s University’s Artist in Community
Education program (2016). Corkey has taught Visual Art and English in the UK, Toronto and
Kingston.
In her art practice, Corkey is interested in untraditional paint mediums and in
challenging and bridging gaps between disciplines. Corkey maintains her art practice by
continuing to create bodies of work that are accepted by her peers in the forms of exhibitions,
publications, awards and grants (including the Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development) as
well as international and local residencies including being an artist-in-residence in Iceland
(2022), at Modern Fuel (2022) and in Denmark (2023).