Students explore a wide range of art media and skills including drawing, painting, printmaking, and 3-D media. They study art history, aesthetics, and criticism from multicultural perspective.
Students assemble a portfolio.
This course is a prerequisite for all future studio art courses in high school. Art 1 Students extend and refine skills and knowledge of art production, visual literacy, and art history developed in Art 1. New skills and media are introduced. Students study art history, aesthetics, and criticism from a chronological perspective. They continue to build portfolios that exhibit expanded knowledge and skills.