Arts

Upper School Theatre Performing Arts Ensemble

This class is open to all upper school students who are seriously interested in learning more about the theatre arts of acting, singing, and musical theatre. The focus of the course is performance. Students will study, rehearse and perform scenework, improvisations, monologues, and professionally written scenes, musicals, and plays. In addition, students will be expected to write original monologues, scenes and adapt one-acts. An ensemble is a trusting and cohesive group of performers, and one of the main goals of the course will be to build a true ensemble among student-actors enrolled. Each trimester's culminating focus will be a public performance of either original or professionally written material, one-act plays, and musical theatre performances.

Studio Art

Studio Art (1st year of art)
Advanced Studio Art (2nd, 3rd, or 4th year of art)

The goals of Studio Art and Advanced studio art are to cultivate visual literacy, technical experience, sensitivity and artistic expression through assignments in a variety of media. Projects include:

• Abstract "Analog" in Colored Ink
• Traditional Self Portrait in Graphite Color Value Painting in Acrylic
• Value Painting in Acrylic (Black, White, Light Grey, Dark Grey)
• Traditional Self Portrait in Black and White Colored Pencil
• Color Value Painting in Acrylic
• Single Wire Sculpture
• Chicken Wire Sculpture
• Distorted Grid
• Viewfinder (in the medium of your choice)
• Viewfinder Abstraction (in the medium of your choice)
• Metamorphosis (in the medium of your choice)
• Social/Political Statement (in the medium of your choice)
• Independent Projects

AP Studio Art (Drawing Portfolio) (for seniors - recommended by the instructor)

Advanced Placement Studio Art is graded on the basis of a portfolio, (rather than by exam, as in other A.P. courses).

The portfolio is made up of 3 sections:

• Section I, "Quality," consists of five actual drawings that represent the student's absolute best work. These drawings will be matted and sent in. They can be no larger than 18"x24" including the matte.
• Section II, "The Concentration" is a body of related drawings based on an individual's interest in a particular visual concern. It focuses on a process of investigation, growth and discovery with any idea in any drawing medium. In this section a maximum of 12 slides may be submitted.
• Section III, represents the "breadth/variety" of the student's experience in drawing. This section consists of all non-concentration assignments, (scratchboard, charcoal, oil and chalk pastels, etc.). This section contains 12 slides.