Visual Arts

Riverside Junior High Art Department offers students an integrated curriculum focusing on art appreciation, problem-solving, aesthetics and critical thinking skills connecting all disciplines of knowledge.  This interdisciplinary approach to studying the visual arts provides students with the following skills:

• The development of an appreciation of aesthetics
• The recognition that works of art reflect and record culture and history
• The ability to make connections between art and its relationship to society
• The ability to comprehend, develop, and use concepts and generalizations
• The ability to distinguish between fact and opinion
• The development of critical thinking skills by learning to express your ideas in a creative, imaginative manner

The Visual Arts curriculum provides specific aspects of producing, conceptualizing and talking/writing about art.  Appropriate materials and learning experiences which nurture the special talents of all students are provided in the art classes here at Riverside.