The Visual Art (VA) Curriculum is organized thematically: 9th grade curriculum centers on the theme of "Me, Myself, and I" 10th grade theme is ""Looking Outward: Connecting to the Community" 11th grade theme is "Fantasy and Time."
Senior visual arts majors create and organize an individual curriculum, document their process, identify community needs for their work, create and schedule monthly critiques, and curate and execute a senior exhibit.
Throughout their four years at BAA, VA students gain experience in the following media: drawing (including observational, contour, still life, figure, nude, gesture, and applied perspective); printmaking (including ink and print, working in reverse, creating an edition, additive and subtractive, monoprinting, rainbow rolls, oil-based ink, woodcuts, transfer techniques); painting (including colormaking, mixing and hue, use of palette, color relationships, painted picture plane, mural, abstraction); mixed media (including assemblage, collage, design, adhesion techniques, found objects, conceptual and installation art); photography (including the science of photography, enlargers, camera obscura, alternative processes, and large-scale prints); sculpture (including form and shape, armature, properties of
clay, transition from 2D to 3D, beginning glazing skills, properties of plaster, abstraction in 3D form, and mold making); and media-assisted art (including Adobe Photoshop, RayDream Designer, Visual Page, and GIF Builder in computer-generated art and basics of video production).
Students also gain curatorial skills; practice critique and analysis skills; and study art history and art context. |
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