This course will provide students with opportunities to develop and improve their visual art skills in multiple art disciplines drawing, painting, photography, design, printmaking and sculpture.
The Visual Art department will support you in developing your thinking and questioning skills alongside practical skills in art making. Our goal is for you to become an independent learner, confident in your own decision-making. In this course we support you in developing your own individual programme by establishing habits where you regularly reflect on your learning, plan your next step and develop set weekly individual goals/contracts during a one-on-one critique with your teacher. We create an environment where you learn from others through discussion, class critiques, and working collaboratively. Staff will facilitate your learning through in-depth questioning to support you to reach your full potential. We focus on challenging and extending your cognitive skills and technical ability. You will be encouraged to take risks in your artmaking, to embrace failures and see them as opportunities to problem-solve. You will develop strong time management skills. In the Visual Art Faculty staff will work with you to develop a personalised programme and provide deep learning opportunities based on your strengths, ideas and stylistic interests. You will be inspired, challenged and empowered!
Course content
- Contexts for learning include drawing, painting, photography, design, printmaking and sculpture. Students will engage in long-term projects in these areas as they develop their visual art skills.
- The course is for study of level 1 NCEA and could be preparation for further study at Level 2 and 3 or tertiary level. Students are taught to understand visual art methods and processes to develop knowledge of the current processes, procedures, materials and techniques. This involves how to carry out research, generate ideas and systematically develop these ideas through to the finished visual arts outcomes.
- A workbook is kept throughout the year to record this process of development. Students are encouraged to use contemporary and traditional artist models to develop their own work.
Assessment statement
- NCEA opportunities in this course will be available for Visual Arts. The course content will provide opportunities for assessments in both learning areas while working in the same year-long context.
- Typically, students should aim to complete at least one internal assessment per term, as well as a one-panel art portfolio at the end of the year, which is assessed externally. Assessment work is completed both in-class and out-of-class time. The folio requires students to develop a significant body of work across the whole year, and so this will only be available to students who are in the course for the whole year.
- Up to 20 credits will be on offer for a student who completes at least one internal in each of terms 1-3, and who also completes the 1 x A1 art folio.