VISUAL ART COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 2024-2025
Two-Dimensional Studio Art 1 (#0101300) Sketchbook Required.
Preq: None
Grades: 9-12 / Credit: 1.0
Students experiment with the media and techniques used to create a variety of two-dimensional (2-D) artworks through the development of skills in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and/or design. Students practice, sketch, and manipulate the structural elements of art to improve mark making and/or the organizational principles of design in a composition from observation, research, and/or imagination. Through the critique process, students evaluate and respond to their own work and that of their peers. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
Pre-AICE Art & Design (Drawing & Painting) (#0104415) Sketchbook Required
Grades: 9-11
DESCRIPTION: Serves as an introduction to AICE process. Cambridge Art and Design is accepted by universities, art colleges and employers as evidence of experience and skills in developing and producing a range of artefacts and designs showing visual knowledge and understanding along with critical and cultural awareness.
Cambridge AICE AS-Level Art & Design (Drawing & Painting) (#010370)
Preq: Pre-AICE / teacher recommendation
Grades: 10-12
Cambridge AICE A-Level Art & Design (Drawing & Painting) (#0101371)
Preq: AS-Level
Grade: 11-12
DESCRIPTION: The Cambridge International AS and A Level Art and Design syllabus encourages a range of skills, stimulates aesthetic awareness, knowledge and critical understanding of art, and provides opportunities for learners to develop a range of skills. Crucially, a personal and independent perspective is encouraged at all times. The syllabus is designed to accommodate a wide range of abilities, materials and resources, and allows the different skills of the teaching staff to be fully exploited.
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Ceramics I (#0102300) Credit 1.0
Prereq: None
Students explore how space, mass, balance, and form combine to create aesthetic forms or utilitarian products and structures. Instructional focus will be on ceramics and/or pottery. Media may include, but are not limited to, clay and/or plaster, with consideration of the workability, durability, cost, and toxicity of the media used. Student artists consider the relationship of scale (i.e., hand-held, human, monumental) through the use of positive and negative space or voids, volume, visual weight, and gravity to create low/high relief or freestanding structures for personal intentions or public places. They explore sharp and diminishing detail, size, position, overlapping, visual pattern, texture, implied line, space, and plasticity, reflecting craftsmanship and quality in the surface and structural qualities of the completed art forms. Students in the ceramics and/or pottery art studio focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
Ceramics/Pottery 3 Honors (#0102320) Credit 1.0
Preq: Ceramics 1
Grades: 10-12
Students communicate a sense of 4-D, motion, and/or time, based on creative use of spatial relationships and innovative treatment of space and its components. Instruction may include content in ceramics, pottery, or other related media. Students address 4-D, the inter-relatedness of art and context, and may also include installation or collaborative works, virtual realities, light as a medium (i.e., natural, artificial, or reflective), or flexible, entered, or activated space. Other concepts for exploration include tension, compression or expansion, intrusions or extrusions, grouping, proximity, containment, closure, contradiction, and continuity. Ceramic and/or pottery artists experiment with processes, techniques, and media, which may include, but are not limited to, casting and kiln-firing techniques, and mold making. Craftsmanship and quality are reflected in the surface and structural qualities of the completed art forms. Students in the ceramics and/or pottery art studio focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
Cambridge AICE AS-Level Ceramics (#0102330)
Preq: Ceramics/Honors III
Grades: 10-12
DESCRIPTION: Students develop their knowledge of and skills in a range of media, processes and techniques, and demonstrate understanding of developing designs for a three-dimensional outcome, working to a theme or brief and considering design constraints and problems. Students also consider traditional, contemporary and emerging techniques and approaches.
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3-Dimensional Studio Art 1 (#0101330) Credit 1.0
Preq: None
Grades: 9-12
DESCRIPTION: Students explore how space, mass, balance, and form combine to create aesthetic forms or utilitarian products and structures. Media may include plastics, found objects, wood, plaster, and paper maché. Student artists consider the relationship of scale through the use of positive and negative space or voids, volume, visual weight, and gravity to create low/high relief or freestanding structures for personal intentions or public places. They explore sharp and diminishing detail, size, position, overlapping, visual pattern, texture, implied line, space, and plasticity, reflecting craftsmanship and quality in the surface and structural qualities of the completed art forms. Students in the 3D focus on use of safety procedures for process, media, and techniques. Student artists use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities.
Pre-AICE 3D Studies (Ceramics) (#0101375)
Grades: 9-11
DESCRIPTION: Serves as an introduction to AICE process. Cambridge Art and Design is accepted by universities, art colleges and employers as evidence of experience and skills in developing and producing a range of artefacts and designs showing visual knowledge and understanding along with critical and cultural awareness.
Cambridge AICE AS-Level Art & Design (3D Studies/Ceramics) (#010370)
Preq: Pre-AICE / teacher recommendation
Grades: 10-12
Cambridge AICE A-Level Art & Design (3D Studies/Ceramics) (#0101371)
Preq: AS-Level
Grade: 11-12
DESCRIPTION: The Cambridge International AS and A Level Art and Design syllabus encourages a range of skills, stimulates aesthetic awareness, knowledge and critical understanding of art, and provides opportunities for learners to develop a range of skills. Crucially, a personal and independent perspective is encouraged at all times. The syllabus is designed to accommodate a wide range of abilities, materials and resources, and allows the different skills of the teaching staff to be fully exploited.
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Creative Photography 1 (#0108310) Credit 1.0
Preq: None
Grades: 9-12
Students explore the aesthetic foundations of art making using beginning photography techniques. This course may include, but is not limited to, color and/or black and white photography via digital media and/or traditional photography. Students become familiar with the basic mechanics of a camera, including lens and shutter operation, compositional foundations, printing an image for display, and evaluating a successful print. Student photographers may use a variety of media and materials, such as 35mm black and white film, single lens reflex camera, digital camera, darkroom, computer application, filters, various papers, digital output, photogram, cyanotypes, Sabatier effect, and pinhole photography. Craftsmanship and quality are reflected in the surface of the prints and the care of the materials. Photographers use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.
Visual Technology 1 / Animation (#0107440) Credit 1.0
Preq: None
Grades 9-12
DESCRIPTION: Students explore the aesthetic foundations of art making using beginning photography techniques. This course uses digital media. Students become familiar with the basic mechanics of a camera, including lens and shutter operation, compositional foundations, printing an image for display, and evaluating a successful print. Student photographers may use a variety of media and materials such as digital camera, computer applications, filters, studio lighting, various papers, and various presentation options. Craftsmanship and quality are reflected in the surface of the prints and the care of the materials. Photographers use an art criticism process to evaluate, explain, and measure artistic growth in personal or group works. This course incorporates hands-on activities.
Pre-AICE Digital Media & Design (Photography/Animation) (#0108355)
Grades: 9-11
DESCRIPTION: Serves as an introduction to AICE process. Cambridge Art and Design is accepted by universities, art colleges and employers as evidence of experience and skills in developing and producing a range of artefacts and designs showing visual knowledge and understanding along with critical and cultural awareness.
Cambridge AICE AS-Level Digital Media & Design (Photography/Animation) (#0108400)
Preq: Pre-AICE / teacher recommendation
Grades: 10-12
Cambridge AICE A-Level Digital Media & Design (Photography/Animation) (#0108410)
Preq: AS-Level
Grade: 11-12
DESCRIPTION: The Cambridge International AS and A Level Art and Design syllabus encourages a range of skills, stimulates aesthetic awareness, knowledge and critical understanding of art, and provides opportunities for learners to develop a range of skills. Crucially, a personal and independent perspective is encouraged at all times. The syllabus is designed to accommodate a wide range of abilities, materials and resources, and allows the different skills of the teaching staff to be fully exploited.
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Fine Craft Studio Art 1 (#0101440) Preq: None
Fine Craft Studio Art 2 (#0101450) Preq: Fine Craft Studio Art 1
Grades: 9-12
DESCRIPTION: Students create well-designed work that is utilitarian, purposeful, wearable, and/or sculptural in nature. This course may include, but is not limited to, content in metals, jewelry, glass, fabrics/fibers, clay, fashion design, and/or objects for interior or architectural design/embellishment. Students develop the language of fine craft through a concentration on fundamental technical skills. Student artisans reflect on aesthetics and visual issues related to fine craft through the use of the structural elements of art and organizational principles of design. Students use analytical and problem-solving skills to improve personal work and that of their peers. Students investigate the significance of Western and non-Western cultures related to understanding the art role in global culture and informing creative choices in media and design. This course incorporates hands-on activities and consumption of art materials.