The Visual Experience

Essential Questions
Enduring ideas and important topics students should understand showcase the deep relevance of art in students’ lives and lay the foundation for artmaking experiences. Filled with student choice, lessons throughout the program ensure students are fully engaged in learning and able to nurture their creative voice.

Inquiry-Based Learning
Provide students with the opportunity to focus on the steps of making art. Studio experiences across the program are specifically developed to support differentiated discovery. Give students the space to consider what they are making, how they are thinking, and critically analyze new ideas.

Postmodern Principles
Introduce students to and engage them with the evolving elements of art and principles of design. Lessons include concepts such as appropriation and recontextualization to extend the traditional elements and principles of making art and help students better understand the complexity of artwork created today.

Student Engagement
Art and artists from diverse cultures around the world, thought-provoking contemporary art, and outstanding student art capture the attention of even the most reluctant students, help them see themselves in the instructional materials, and engage with lessons on a deeper level.