Seattle Preparatory School visual arts ceramics photography drawing Virginia du Mas, the visual arts teacher, has been teaching for twenty-three years. The main goal is to give students an overall view of the arts. Everyone is required to take visual arts courses, providing all students with an opportunity to learn new skills that they may or may not have had a chance to learn before. 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.