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Art


The art program focuses on self confidence and art appreciation. Students gain an appreciation for art history and experience the pride of creation through a vast variety of media. A carefully prepared curriculum is developed in conjunction with classroom cultural development. The program maintains a revolving display of student created work which celebrates all of our student's accomplishments.

Primary
The primary art program is literature based and incorporates history and language arts. It focuses on developing skills such as self confidence and art appreciation. Students will be taught the concepts of line, value, shape, texture, symmetry, pattern, dominance, color, proportion, overlap, representation, movement, repetition, and rhythm. The students will learn these topics by experimenting with different tools utilizing several techniques in various mediums.
Elementary
The elementary art program is interdisciplinary, and will include extensive art history. Students will learn the concepts taught to primary students in addition to those of composition, space, symbolism, vanishing point, horizon, diversity, value, collage, dream style imagery, textile design, anatomy, and sculpture.
Upper Elementary/Middle School
The upper elementary and middle school art program is interdisciplinary and will include extensive art history with greater concentration on tools to further develop students skills level.  It includes a concentration on movement, symbolism, composition, product development, advertising, architecture, graphic design, illustration, and collaboration.