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.

Courses offered:
7h Grade Full Year
8th Grade Full Year
8th Grade Semester
7th & 8th Grade 9 Week