Students enhance their creative skills while learning how artists use these elements to tell their visual story. Drawing skills are taught using right brain drawing techniques, tapping the ability to draw in all of us.
Students explore printmaking, and ceramics and painting.
Other concepts such as the use of symbolism in art, art criticsm and appreciation play an import role in their art experience. 7th grade art begins by exploring the visual princples of art and how artists use these to communicate their visual messages. Students reflect how people, places and animals play a role in our lives. Students will learn figure drawing, printmaking techniques and do a paper mache' sculpture. We look at the art of the past and reinterpret it to reflect our culture and contemporary issues.