Courses
Selecting A Class - You may choose a class because you’d like to try something new. Or because you’re looking for intensive studio time in a favorite discipline.
Each class combines individual attention with group projects and critiques, all in a supportive atmosphere. Along with studio work, classes take trips to museums, galleries and urban cultural sites. In Creative Writing Workshops, students explore connections of spoken and written word within the visual language of art making.
Classes are held from 10am to 5pm. (Only Portfolio Preparation runs 9am-5pm) College workshops for Seniors and Juniors are held 1st & 2nd semesters. Class transfers may be made if space is available. The Program closes with an Annual Exhibition and Spoken Word Performance in April, with friends and family invited to share work created over the year.
Course Descriptions
Sculpture Sculpture is more than statues of men on horses. This class introduces three dimensional work and concepts of designing in space. Techniques will include construction, carving, and casting. Materials will vary but may include: cardboard, wood, plaster, wire, clay, cloth and found objects.
Graphics Graphic designers create the visual images around us; signs, advertisements, magazines, labels, logos ... This class introduces concepts and strategies of composition used in 2-D design; how visual elements shape content and how images convey messages. Materials include: pencil, marker, paint, and collage.
Painting Working from live models, still lives, interiors, exteriors and imagination, the painting class explores techniques of painting, basics of color theory and concepts of abstraction. Students paint with acrylic on paper, board and stretched canvas and create studies in charcoal, watercolor and mixed media.
Drawing The drawing class examines a variety of techniques, styles and ideas of drawing and seeing. In addition to working from live models, objects, interiors, text and still lives, the class makes ‘off site’ sketching trips. Materials will include: charcoal, pencil, ink, oil pastels and collage.
Architecture Architecture is the art of designing structures and environments. This class focuses on developing the basic creative concepts used in design. It involves thinking, drawing, and model making. Students are taught how to use drawing tools, but this isn’t a drafting class. (We encourage girls to try this class & consider an architecture career).
Sound Composition For ‘08 -‘09 Saturday Program is offering a NEW course in Sound Composition. Students will be introduced to identifying, capturing, manipulating, mixing and creating sound as an art form. Topics include: development of electro-acoustic music, history of sound composition, listening practices, working digitally with ProTools LE; strategies for non-musical sources and creating sound from visual/graphic scores. Students will create their own sound compositions and scores.
Portfolio Preparation [For admissions to Port Prep bring examples of your artwork to the Review- First Saturday in October]
Port Prep is a studio course designed to prepare seniors for admission to Art and Architecture colleges. Each student develops a portfolio from class projects in varied media: drawing, painting, design etc. (with each final portfolio photographed in 20, 35mm slides or CD). Through class work, home projects and group critiques, students explore conceptual thinking and expand their visual and analytical vocabulary. The class also visits a series of artists in their studios and galleries