It gives students an understanding of their creative process. The curriculum of ceramics at Seattle Prep is for students to plan and work with clay as an artist might approach the development of a work of art. Students work in both the studio and library in order to create both functional and abstract pieces. This results in a varied, general and expanded experience. The photography curriculum at Seattle Prep contains the most basic to more advanced skills.
Students start at the very beginning of photography by learning the parts of a camera.
They learn not only how cameras work, but why they work in that way. The reason for this is so that students can work independently, and are able to use their skills outside of school. The students at Seattle Prep get both an active sense of how to draw, and a general sense of drawing techniques.