The Elementary Art Curriculum provides a framework for helping students learn the characteristics of the visual arts by using a wide range of subject matter, symbols, meaningful images, and visual expressions to reflect their ideas, feelings, and emotions. The program incorporates art history, production, critique and aesthetics. Art history allows the students to connect with artists, as well as a variety of artistic styles around the world. In production, students explore media through drawing and painting, paper construction, clay work, printmaking and sculpture.
Drawing: Media used: Pencil, oil pastels, chalk pastels, charcoal, markers, colored pencils
Drawing skills and techniques: Line drawing, gesture drawing, contour drawing, value, perspective, light and shadow, proportion and scale, drawing bodies, drawing faces
Painting: Media used: Acrylic paints, watercolor, tempera, ink, watercolor pencils
Painting skills and techniques: Color study, watercolor wash and transparency, pointillism, impressionism
Printmaking: Media used: Printmaking ink, paint, styrofoam, lino blocks
Printmaking skills and techniques: Monoprints, found objects, relief, reduction, incising, etching
Ceramics: Media used: clay, glaze, oxides
Ceramic skills and techniques: coil, slab, additive/subtractive sculpture, impressing, incising, pinching, press molding
Technology: Media used: Internet: art museums online, games, puzzles, research artists, electronic demonstrations by artists, communication with other artists, drawing and painting software
Technology skills and techniques: characteristics and uses of art software programs, skills of designing and creating art digitally.
