In addition to developing skills for potential future careers, arts education can help kids engage with school and reduce stress, develop social-emotional and interpersonal skills, handle constructive criticism, bolster academic achievement, and improve focus. Studies show that a comprehensive arts curriculum can lead to better academic outcomes for students, including higher grades and test scores and higher rates of graduation.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
Art History courses introduce students to significant works of art, artists, and artistic movements that have shaped the world and influenced or reflected various periods of history. These courses may emphasize the sequential evolution of art forms, techniques, symbols, and themes. Art History courses also develop an understanding of art in relation to social, cultural, political, and historical events throughout the world, while covering multiple artists, aesthetic issues, and the evolution of art.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
Concentration on student skill development with 2-dimensional drawing media. Students will engage in the utilization of a variety of drawing materials, including: graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, marker, ink, silverpoint, and pastel. Specific techniques will be discussed and applied. Historical aspects of drawing, including different styles and artists, will be introduced and discussed throughout the semester. Students will focus on still-life, landscape, human figure, and creative abstraction. This course can be taken twice.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
Concentration on student skill development with 2-dimensional painting media. Students will utilize a variety of painting materials, including: acrylic, watercolor, gouache and oil. Students will work both from reference materials as well as creatively. Historical aspects of painting, including different styles and artists, will be introduced and discussed throughout the semester. This course can bet taken twice.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
Concentration on student skill development in 3-dimensional media. Students will work exclusively with 3D materials in order to deepen their understanding of how form, space, texture, and scale are interdependent upon one another in a sculptural work of art. Historical styles and artists will also be visually explored and discussed throughout the semester.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
A workshop course in the use of digital cameras for photography, including how to professionally edit images in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. A study and application of graphic design as it pertains to both decorative and commercial art. Students will explore the world of design through the use of both hand-drawn imagery as well as computer aided graphics. Historical styles and artists will be visually explored and discussed during the semester. There may be a $50 fee for this course.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
A survey of the many different types of printmaking with emphasis on student creativity. Students will experience printmaking techniques of silk-screening, silk aquatint, etching, mezzotint, monotype, linoleum block printing, lithography, drypoint, and collagraphy. Historical styles and artists will be visually explored and discussed during the semester.
Grade: 9-12
Length: 1 semester
Level: General
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: Experience with an instrument or instructor approval.
Students enrolled in Band develop their musicianship and technique for playing brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments through rehearsal and performance of a variety of band literature including marching, concert, jazz, and pep music. Participation at concerts, football games, parades, and other events as specified is required.