ART DEPARTMENT
Additional Fees: Some classes will require outside projects for which parents will provide the
necessary supplies. Classroom teachers will communicate this to you. In addition, High School
classes in technology and art will require additional fees when class projects are differentiated. Each
student will be charged for materials used. These fees will be projected prior to a student
building/creating the project.
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Two Dimensional Art I
½ credit/semester
Grades 9 – 12
Learn how to draw, paint and print!! Create exciting and imaginative portraits, landscapes, still-lifes,
abstracts, animals, cars, etc. will be recreated through techniques in pencil, watercolor, and acrylic
paint. Basic color and design ideas will be taught. The ability to communicate your art ideas and
emotions is important and will be developed through the teaching of skills, art appreciation, history,
terminology and creativity by student participation in projects and discussions. Students will chronicle
their experiences by developing a sketchbook and a digital portfolio.
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Two Dimensional Art II, III
½ credit/semester
Grades 9 – 12
Want to see and think more creatively, expand your visual awareness and create art that could surprise
even you? Learn new techniques in air brush painting, computer art, color pencil, pen & ink, scratch
board, pastel/charcoal portraiture, acrylic painting, watercolor landscape painting and figure drawing.
These classes will involve purposeful decision-making about how to use the elements and principles of
art in an integrated way. Students will chronicle their experiences by developing a sketchbook and a
digital portfolio. This course may be taken more than once to take your mastery to a higher and more
complex level. Projects will vary each semester.
Prerequisite: Two Dimensional Art I or Two Dimensional Art II
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Three Dimensional Art I
½ credit/semester
Grades 9 - 12
Remember all the beautiful pottery you see at the fairs and at the craft markets? You can do it too (or
at least get a good start). This introduction to three-dimensional art teaches you how to construct, fire,
and glaze both hand and wheel-built pottery and sculpture. Various other media could include, but are
not limited to sand block, creastone, plaster, model magic, wood, found objects, metals and glass.
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