HIGH SCHOOL ART:  

9-12^th grade  meets 3 regular days for 45 min. classes  and 1 block day for 90 min class

COURSE CURRICULUM:

Each month or quarter will have a different theme that includes an element or principal of art along with an artist, time period, or culture. These themes will have Biblical integration, reflect events at school, relate to certain times of the year, or might even be interdisciplinary relating to other topics the students are learning in other classes. Students will have their projects framed and displayed in the hallway where they will all participate in art critiques. Each student is expected to learn the proper art vocabulary to explain their opinions of any work of art in a professional manner. Students may also be asked to explain the thought processes behind their work and defend their project or point of view to the class.

All secondary students will be able to use a provided rubric to score their own work in 5 different categories:  Following Directions, Materials Used, Effort, Time Management, and Craftsmanship. The students make comments about what they thought about the project or why they deserve the score they gave themselves. The teacher will review their grades, provide a score for their work and write comments.

• Aesthetics branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty.
• Comparing two artists’ styles, talking about why a piece of art is beautiful to one person & ugly to another.
• Art Criticism:  We have group discussions as a class in the hallway when everyone’s art is hung on the walls (like they are in a museum).
• Art History: Educating the students about various artists, their styles, their place in history and why their work was important!
• Time periods & Culture: Exploring the art of Cave paintings, Egyptian art, Native American art, Illuminated Manuscripts, African Art, Greek & Roman Architecture, or Modern Art.

ART MEDIA:

• Paint: Watercolor, Acrylic, Tempera
• Pencil, Marker, Crayon, Colored Pencil, Oil Pastel, Charcoal, and Ink.
• Paper Mache, Found-Object, Cardboard construction, etc.
• Stamps, Linoleum-cut, Screen printing & Mono-prints.
• Multi-media, Tissue paper, Construction Paper, Magazine Cut-Outs, Newspapers.
• Hand-built/Coil, Slab Construction, & Wheel Thrown.
• Scratchboard, Metal Tooling, Weaving & Jewelry.

SCRIPTURE INTEGRATION EXAMPLES: “God is the potter, we are the clay. We have to let God mold us into the vessel He wants to make us into to carry the gospel to others. The clay would never tell the artist what to do. ”

• “Creating a picture of a landscape is like God creating the heavens and the earth.”
• “Once we accept Christ, He makes a stamp or an imprint of his love on our hearts. As we grow as a Christian we develop different layers that make our spiritual life more complex and developed.”

ART COMPETITIONS/EXHIBITIONS:

Springfield Art Museum Exhibition –One student from every grade level K-12 is selected to have a piece of artwork framed and displayed in the Springfield Art Museum for 1 month in the spring.

Mark Twain Art Competition: (for 6^th-12^th grade artwork)

• Annual art competition in March that six local schools in the Mark Twain Conference are automatically entered into every year.

AWARDS AND HONORS PAST 3 YEARS

2008-09 – NCA received 3^rd place overall (received 22 ribbons out of 50 entries)

2009-10 - NCA received 1^st overall- Grand Champion (received 36 ribbons out of 50 entries)

• HS- Awarded “Best in Show 3D”

2010-11 - NCA received 1^st overall- Grand Champion (received 48 ribbons out of 50 entries)

• HS- Awarded “Best in Show-2D”  
• SBU Art Competition-
• Awarded 1^st place overall & “Best in Show”
• Awarded 2^nd, 4^th and 6^th place overall  (Received 4 out of 6 ribbons given out)
• Roy Blunt Congressional Art Competition- Participation Awards: Chris Li 08-09, Selby Lennard 09-10
• Barnes and Noble Student Art Exhibition- (2008-09)
• SPECIAL EVENT-  “Fine Arts Night” Fund-raiser: (2009 and 2011) Raised enough money for a new electric pottery wheel, clay slab roller and a new digital camera for photo club and graphics.