Studio Art

Where grades 9-11 will use basic art principles and design to manipulate traditional and not traditional media.

Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh; a female ancestor figure by a Chokwe artist; detail from The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli; and an Okinawan Shisa lion.

Works of art can tell stories or simply express an aesthetic truth or feeling. Panorama of a section of A Thousand Li of Mountains and Rivers, a 12th-century painting by Song dynasty artist Wang Ximeng.

By modeling what we experience in the world we can create anything!--Runge to the 9th Graders.

And this is just the beginning of our journey together!