NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Purpose The purpose for the Visual Art Program at Newark School of the Arts is to provide comprehensive visual art for beginning, intermediate and advanced students interested in art making. Utilizing key art-education methodologies, students will construct meaning about the world through art-making; build upon internal and external experiences to express personal vision;develop a global perspective of how visual art communicates belief, values and creativity. Students from elementary school age to young adult will learn how to articulate their vision

		sequentially through exploration of various media such as painting, drawing, print making, collage, sculpture and two-dimensional applied design. As a part of an integrated approach to teaching visual arts, students will hone observational skills, discuss works of art and develop a comparable visual art language that describes art making. Students will also extend their learning beyond the classroom by taking field trips to local cultural institutions, public art installations, parks, and buildings to reinforce and broaden visual art language and experience. All students in the visual art program will participate in periodic exhibitions of their work. Students will learn aspects of the curatorial process by writing their own artist statements,
and in some cases acting as student docents to discuss works of art in a student exhibit.