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Visual Arts
The Visual Arts Program is designed to introduce students to a broad range of experiences and activities including observing, sensing, creating, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and communicating. Students will learn to assess visual information. Each visual arts level encourages student discussion, reading and writing. Critical inquiry and personally meaningful subject matter will be promoted in all courses to foster uniqueness, originality and self-expression in the work produced. Students will be introduced to a variety of disciplines media, tools, techniques and art styles always within an historical context provided by the art history section of the program.
Grades 7 & 8 Visual Arts – Fine Arts
Students in Grades 7 and 8 will have a wide range of studio experiences. They will be introduced to a variety of tools, media and techniques while exploring and applying the elements and principles of design. These explorations will take place under the main disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.
AVI1OH Visual Arts
This course offers an overview of visual arts as a foundation for further study. Students will become familiar with the elements and principles of design and the expressive qualities of various materials through working with a range of media processes techniques and styles. They will learn and use methods of analysis and criticism and will study the characteristics of particular historical art periods and a selection of Canadian art and the art of other cultures.
AVI2OH Visual Arts
This course emphasizes learning through practice; building on what students know; and introducing them to new ideas materials and processes for artistic thinking and experimentation. Student learning will include the refined application of the elements and principles of design incorporating the creative and design processes, and the relationship between form and content. Students will also learn about the connections between works of art and their historical contexts. Course objectives will be achieved with a focus on the discipline of drawing.
AVI3M1 Visual Arts (University/College Preparation)
This course provides students with opportunities to further develop their skills and knowledge in the visual arts. Students will explore a range of subject matter through studio activities, and will consolidate their practical skills. Students will also analyse art works and study aspects of Western art history, as well as art forms from Canada and other parts of the world. MET Prerequisite: Visual Arts Grade 9 or 10 Open.
AVI4M1 Visual Arts (University/College Preparation)
This course focuses on the refinement of students’ skills and knowledge in visual arts. Students will analyse art forms; use theories of art in analysing and producing art; and increase their understanding of stylistic changes in modern and contemporary Western art, Canadian (including Native Canadian) art, and art forms from various parts of the world. Students will produce a body of work demonstrating a personal approach. MET Prerequisite: Visual Arts Grade 11 University/College Preparation or Open.