The Visual Arts Department offers students of all grade levels, the space, guidance and materials to express themselves in the many mediums visual arts provides. Art classes in the lower school focus on developing the children’s motor skills through cutting, pasting, learning about primary colors and stimulating their imagination. The upper school classes focus on technique, art history and creative expression. Each semester addresses a different medium, like drawing, painting and ceramics. Drawing reviews the elements of art, such as value, proportion, perspective, depth, negative and positive space and gesture drawing. In painting classes, students learn about color theory and how to make, mix and use colors and brush strokes. The semester on ceramics teaches them about the use of the kiln and techniques on molding and clay painting. Additionally, each art project focuses on a master artist and their particular theory and technique. |
