Art and Design

What Students Learn

Art and Design combines exploration in visual art with design practice, helping students communicate ideas through form and materials. Students develop work around a creative intention or a specific need, comparing possibilities through sketches and material experiments before refining their work through feedback.

Learning Focus

1. Visual language: explore the expressive effects of composition and color

2. Materials and techniques: compare the possibilities of different media through experimentation

3. Design process: develop a response to a creative intention or an intended use

4. Presentation and reflection: document the process and explain revisions

Learning Outcomes

Students create art or design work and explain how their choices of materials support their intentions. Practice and feedback develop aesthetic judgment and methods for independent creative work.