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Visual Arts- General Fine Arts
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Students are taught ways to move towards Conceptual, Representational, and Abstract art through a perceptual perspective. All students are taught to gain visual insight by learning how to observe the way contours, light, and shade define form and space. Students learn that visual information is gathered by looking and thinking about their own environment.
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Announcements
Summer Work 2009
Visual Arts Connects - 11/12/2009
The VA Connects night will be from 7 to 9 PM in the large theater.
Fresh Produce Art Auction- 2/10/2010
Fundraiser that allows the Visual Arts department to exist.
ARTs Recognition and Talent Search Application
Deadline- 10/1/2009
This scholarship is open to seniors and its winners become the pool for potential
"Presidential Scholar in the Arts" nominees.
ARTs Recognition and Talent Search Portfolio
Receiving Deadline- 10/30/2009
CDs must be RECEIVED BY ARTs by
this date.
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Program Description
Students become aware that through the act of seeing and making art they can define their visual experiences, think creatively and proceed to search for personal expression and imagery...
Visual Arts Department Goals and Expectations....
What Are The Goals And Expectations?
1. To teach the techniques and concepts that will help students think and work creatively.
2. To prepare students through portfolio development to successfully apply as an art major to the college of their choice AND/OR to successfully complete a Visual Arts' Completer Technology requirement.
3. To teach the visual values that will help define a student's aesthetic philosophy.
4. To help students become familiar with the art and artists throughout history who have shaped our cultural heritage.
5. To help students develop good working habits.
How are these goals and expectations accomplished?
Studio lessons are given every day. Lessons last from 1 1/2 hours to 3 hours
depending on the course level and schedule.
All freshmen take a required
foundation course (Level 1) that includes the study of several disciplines
on a fundamental level (painting, drawing, sculpture, multimedia, and photography).
The sophomore and junior years (Levels 2 and 3) consist primarily of courses that
expand and refine the knowledge obtained in the foundation level.
Students may pursue counseled personal expression in
their senior year (Level 4).
Carver Center students are expected to be respectful of their environment in
and out of the studio.
Students are expected to maintain an environment conducive
to creativity.
Students are required to make a portfolio of their work.
All classes have required home assignments on a daily or weekly basis. Home
assignments are graded and count as a substantial portion of the grade.
Carver Center Students are expected to be focused and maintain a strong work ethic.
The Visual Arts program is rooted in a Fine Arts philosophy. The fundamentals
of art are taught at Carver Center.
Through direct observation student artists
begin their search for personal imagery and creative thinking.
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Course Descriptions
Visual Art
G/T - Gifted and Talented/AP- Advanced Placement
Drawing
Emphasized as the essential foundation to in-depth observation and the basis of all the visual arts. Drawing from direct observation is a requirement. Drawing
is a requirement for all Visual Arts students.
Figure Class
Students have the opportunity to work from the model. Students learn the classical approach to understanding and executing scale, form, color, and proportion.
Multimedia
The Multimedia Digital Arts Component will prepare students to use program tutorials, design concepts, and the practical artistic applications of industry standard software. The courses emphasize the tools, terms and techniques of visual computing for the artists and the production of multimedia artworks. Students will develop skills in working with multiple software programs such as Adobe Photoshop (bitmapped imaging), Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics), as well as tools required to display their work on the web (Dreamweaver and Flash). Students may elect to take four credits to graduate with a career technology completer certificate.
Painting
Students are offered an opportunity to intensely study the use of color as well as to manipulate the illusion of form and space. Painting is a requirement
for all Visual Arts students.
Photography
The application of traditional SLR, 35 mm cameras, traditional and non-traditional wet lab processing, and digital color imaging.
Digital Filmmaking
Students learn the language of fine art Digital Filmmaking by creating and editing video and audio. Students may elect to take four credits to graduate with a career technology completer certificate.
Sculpture
A classical understanding of beauty, form and structure in clay.
Art History
A global survey of the history of art.
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