Arts

Visual Arts

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Arts

Visual artists begin exploring the fundamentals when Lower School students learn about artists and artistic techniques. Opportunities for visual expression continue to grow with advanced classes and events to create and showcase hands-on media.

Design

Students explore traditional and contemporary methods of art and design construction, with opportunities to pursue graphic design, multimedia art, printmaking, 3D fabrication, and more.

Woodworking

After learning shop safety and tool use, Industrial Arts students design, build, and finish cutting boards, furniture, and more. Advanced woodworkers create marketable art with wood, metal, pottery, leather, and stone.

Ceramics

Ceramics students develop a working knowledge of the various techniques of the ceramic process including clay and glaze formulation, kiln firing, throwing on the potter’s wheel, and numerous methods of hand building.

Painting

Painting is incorporated in Drawing courses where students explore the use of wet-media and color theory and engage in studies of portraits, perspective, and values and texture rendering.

Drawing

From fundamentals to an array of design challenges in 2D media, students learn classical approaches to life drawing, anatomy, portraiture, figure studies, and architectural perspective drawing.

Photography

Within specific art and design courses, students learn composition and the principles of design and explore the creative process of design and media through digital photography.

Stephanie Van Horn, CCS Class of 2016

"For 13 years I grew up in those blue and gold halls and discovered my passion for photography. The personal and creative development that I experienced at CCS led me to become a confident and ever-growing artist here in the community today. CCS gifted me with the ability to see the bigger picture—to take a step back and see things from every perspective, under a different light, and through every lens available to me.”