Grade: 9-12 Prerequisite:  None Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course of art is offered as a transitional class encouraging the students to go beyond the developmental stages of art by exposing them to the individual creative arts.  The course is designed to motivate students through the manipulation of a variety of art materials and to develop creative thinking through the sensibilities while extending aesthetic awareness to meaningful visual ideas.  The students will be exposed to art history that relates to each assigned project.

Grade: 9-12 Prerequisite:  Art Fundamentals  Length of Course: Semester

Description:  A course focusing on more advanced hard building methods than in the previous Introduction to Art course.  Students will enhance skills of making pinch, coil, and slab pottery.  Students will be required to research different ceramic artists.

Grade: 10-12 Prerequisite:  Ceramics I Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course is for the serious potter.  Students will be assigned to more advanced methods of creating pottery.  Some of these methods include using a slab roller, extruder, and potter's wheel.  Students will create large pieces as well as sets of items.

Grade: 11-12 Prerequisite:  Ceramics II Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course is a continuation of previous ceramic courses.  Students will work primarily on the potter’s wheel.  A beginning unit will combine hand building with the potter’s wheel.

Grade: 11-12 Prerequisite:  Ceramics III Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course is for the advanced potter.  The advanced potter will meet with the instructor and develop a set of goals to accomplish.  The potter should have a particular style they would like to develop.

Grade: 11-12 Prerequisite:  Art Fundamentals Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course of art is offered as a transitional class encouraging the students to go beyond the developmental stages of art by exposing them to the individual creative arts.  The course is designed to motivate students through the manipulation of a variety of art materials and to develop creative thinking through the sensibilities while extending aesthetic awareness to meaningful visual ideas.  The students will be exposed to art history that relates to each assigned project.

Grade: 9-12 Prerequisite: Art Fundamentals  Length of Course: Semester

Description: This course is designed to use drawing as a vehicle for thinking, seeing, and 

communicating across disciplines.  Students will draw from direct observation and invented images and learn from historical and contemporary drawing practices from a multiple of traditions.

Grade: 10-12 Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course examines visual art from around the world. The class covers topics from the famous Cave Paintings to Contemporary art work through common art themes included: Art-making through symbols, Royalty and Patrons, War and Recovery, Industrialization, Expressions & Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, and Multi-perspective art, Surrealism & Psychology, Pop Art, Advertisements Film, Activism through Art, Performance Art, Changes in the Art Market, Land Art, Pandemic Art, and Conceptual Art.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Course

Grade: 9-12 Prerequisite:  Art Fundamentals Length of Course: Semester

Description:  Using Photoshop, students will learn how to navigate the software by creating interesting assignments and designs.  They will create illustrations, posters, and learn how to manipulate photographs.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Course

Grade: 10-12 Prerequisite:  Graphic Design I Length of Course: Year

Description: Students expand their knowledge of Photoshop by creating package designs such as CD covers, cereal/candy box design.  Students will also enter several contests during the semester and also expand their basic graphic design knowledge by learning the basics of Adobe Illustrator.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Course

Grade: 11-12 Prerequisite:  Graphic Design II Length of Course: Year

Description: This is an application level course for the Digital Media Design Pathway of CTE.  In this course students will learn several printing processes along with the silkscreen printing process.  Printing will include shirt and poster designs.  Students will create and present a project management and resource scheduling plan.  Students will learn how to budget projects to selected profit margins. Students will work as a team to plan steps to complete the project deliverables within the budget and due date.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) Course

Grade: 12 Prerequisite:  Graphic Design II Length of Course: Year

Description: Media TechnologyWorkplace Experience courses provide students with work experience in fields related to media technology. Goals are typically set cooperatively by the student, teacher, and employer (although students are not necessarily paid). These courses may include classroom activities as well, involving further study of the field or discussion regarding experiences that students encounter in the workplace.

Grade: 9-12  Prerequisite:  Art Fundamentals  Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course will explore the different mediums of paint.  Students will be acquainted with watercolor, acrylic, and oil mediums.  Students will study different artists from each medium and create paintings from their influence.  Students will be required to provide canvases to paint on.

Grade: 10-12 Prerequisite:  Painting I  Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This course is a continuation of Painting I.  Students will work with oil as a medium, instead of acrylic and watercolor.