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Grade: 9-12 Prerequisite: None Length: One semester/.5 credit Exploring Art is a semester class where students learn how to use a variety of materials, styles, and techniques in two-dimensional art while also strengthening their self-expression. Students create projects in design, drawing, scratch board, and painting while focusing on the elements and principles of art. Grade: 9-12
Prerequisite: None Length: One year/one credit Art 1 is a foundation course that allows the student an opportunity to explore a wide variety of materials, styles and techniques in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. Students will be exposed to design, drawing, painting, cartooning, ceramics and sculpture. Grade: 10-12 Prerequisite: Exploring Art or Art 1 Length: One year/one credit This course provide practice and encouragement for students to develop confidence in acrylic and watercolor painting. Students will receive canvas boards to learn how to paint dynamic compositions, lighting, and color mixing. Exploring your own style is encouraged. We will also discuss art vocabulary and the history of painting. Grade: 10-12
Prerequisite: Exploring Art or Art 1 Length: One year/one credit Crafts offers students creative and challenging 3-D projects in papier-mâché, sandblasting tiles-mirrors-glass, metal designs, fired and soldered glass, glass mosaics, tie-dye T-shirts, braided bracelets and necklaces. Students may also work on the pottery wheels. Grade: 10-12
Prerequisite: Exploring Art or Art 1 Length: One year/one credit Mixed Media explores a combination of two and three-dimensional art forms. Students engage in individual problem-solving, and work to develop their own personal style. Students will express themselves with charcoal, paint, ink, clay, glass, and found objects through drawing, painting, collage, pottery, and sculpture. Projects will be created with observation, imagination and memory. Grade: 10-12
Prerequisite: Exploring Art or Art 1 Length: One year/one credit This course will serve as an introduction to the career fields in commercial art and design. Students will explore advertising, graphics (poster, logo, typography), cartooning (graphic novels), illustration, airbrush, fashion, interior, car and package design, and T-shirt printing. Study will include contests, copyrighting, marketing ideas, and portfolios. The course will include Photoshop, Illustrator, mixed media applications (pencil, ink, paint, collage), and guest speakers. Grade: 10-12
Prerequisite: Exploring Art or Art 1 Length: One year/one credit Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork that involves students in active experience. Artwork is created “in the round,” and viewed from many angles. Students explore a variety of sculptural styles, materials and techniques from basic three-dimensional design to advanced projects in carving, assemblage, wire sculpture, modeling in clay, mold-making, and casting. Grade: 10-12 Prerequisites: Exploring Art or Art 1 Credit: One year/one credit This course covers both contemporary and traditional drawing. Students will strengthen their artistic voice working in pencil, pen and ink, paint marker, spray paint, watercolor pencil, pastel, and charcoal. We will explore contemporary techniques and styles such as stenciling, Photoshop, graffiti, collage, and comics, while also working with the traditions of life drawing, still lifes, and photorealism. Time is allotted for independent and group projects. Grade: 11-12
Prerequisite: Exploring Art, Art 1, Graphics 1 or Photography 1, Leadership, or teacher approval. Length: One year/one credit Students will study how to curate, manage, display and market art for our gallery at Reynolds while working with other students and using various software and social media platforms. Students will work with local artists, gallery owners, and buyers while learning the history of displaying artwork. This course is designed for students who have a desire to work in the creative field of promoting art, but not necessarily making art. Grade: 11-12
Prerequisite: 2 credits in Visual Arts or teacher approval Length: One year/one credit Independent Art Projects is designed for the advanced student who wishes to pursue individual course work under the direction of the visual arts department. Students will design art projects depending on their interests that improve their artist portfolio, community, or school activities. The student and teacher will define specific projects to meet the interest of the student and to meet minimum requirements of the course. Grade: 9-12
Prerequisite: None Length: One year/one credit Students will learn the basics of black and white analog photography using traditional darkroom processes. Students will learn how to improve their photographic shooting skills through the application of composition guidelines and the proper use of light. Additionally, students will learn basic camera functions, and how to print black and white images using photographic paper, chemicals, filters as well as learn burning and dodging techniques. During the latter half of the year, students will explore the use of digital cameras and work independently to gain hands-on experience with basic digital editing techniques using image-editing software. Access to a personal 35mm SLR film camera would greatly improve students’ ability to take photos 24/7. A limited number of 35mm SLR cameras will be available for use during the class period and for occasional overnight check out. Grade: 10-12
Prerequisite: Photography 1 Length: One year/one credit Advanced photography students build upon the basics of Photography 1 as they learn advanced darkroom printing techniques, perfect their digital photography shooting skills and use digital imaging software to professionally edit their images. Students use both 35mm SLR film cameras and SLR digital cameras with interchangeable lenses to complete their in-depth assignments. Students also complete a photography-related job shadow and prepare a photo portfolio. |
