Our visual arts program blends itself into all curriculum areas. Students are encouraged to express their creativity by extending all their unit activities with drawings, paintings, three-dimensional works (sculpture and collage) and/or film and photography. However, we will take advantage of surrounding architecture and natural settings to focus on experimentation with watercolour, acrylic, charcoal, and pencil media. The artists will learn to choose appropriate tools, materials and techniques correctly, selecting those that create their desired effect. They will be able to explain how concepts of design are used in a work of art to communicate feelings and convey ideas.

Visual arts will also be explored through its history. We will engage in a short study of famous painters: European, Native American (North, Central, South America), and Canadian (The Group of Seven, Alex Colville). We will study their genre, and discuss their techniques given influences such as environment, political/social conditions, etc.

Visual arts is an important component of our fall newspaper, student designed magazines, book reports, novel studies, theatrical design and much more!