Welcome to Northern Visual Arts 

Northern has a strong history of providing rigorous, rich Visual Arts programming for students in all grades. In addition to our comprehensive Visual Arts courses (AVI), we offer focus courses in Drawing and Painting (AWM), Life Drawing (AWL; including live models), Digital Design (AWD), as well as Ceramics (AWC).  

In Grade 9, we follow the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies curriculum (2019) in the course Expressions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Cultures (NAC1O).  "This course explores various arts disciplines[...]giving students the opportunity to create, present, and analyse art works, including integrated art works/ productions, that explore or reflect First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives and cultures." While this course is culturally specific, it is an essential component of supporting the TRC Calls to Action and also serves as way to develop students' individual personal connections to the arts while enhancing student learning of Indigenous cultures on the land which we live, work, play and create!

In these courses students have opportunities to  learn drawing and painting using a variety of media, printmaking methods, approaches to sculpture, ceramic techniques, and digital art platforms such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. They also explore a range of important art and design movements, as well as artists from a wide variety of backgrounds, and their artworks.

As a department, we foster and promote the development of individual style. We provide our students with a strong foundation in traditional skills, and encourage them to use this as a platform to explore and experiment with a wide range of artmaking possibilities.  We invite them to engage in artmaking as a social, political and personal expression in response to individual experiences and the world we live in.

We hope you enjoy exploring the artwork of our students on our website. We are very proud of their accomplishments!

Please also enjoy our Northern Lights Virtual Art Shows!

                Virtual Show 2019-2020                 Virtual Show 2020-2021

Course Outlines

10 Applied Design (AWD20)

11 Drawing and Painting (AWM3M)

11 Visual Art (AVI3M)

12 Visual Art (AVI4M)