Visual Arts Program - Middle School

    Ben Hild, 8th grade:  pen and ink still life 

The middle school visual arts program is designed to review and master the principles and elements of design as a tool to create and communicate through art.  Through the use of various art mediums they will become more skillful in their application. By becoming familiar with artists and genres of art throughout history they can discover how they themselves fit in to the process of communicating the artwork of their own culture. Middle school students take art one semester at a time. When students enroll in art class, they meet for 43 minutes per day, five days per week.  

There are two different opportunities in the school year to take part in an art club. One meets for four consecutive weeks in the fall, and the other meets during the spring semester.   Middle school artwork is also on display at several places throughout the year: in-school art shows, the Gail Borden Library, and the ACSI Art Festival in which we compete with other ACSI school in the Chicago area.  For more information regarding our visual arts programs, please visit the art department's website at www.wcsvisualarts.net

One middle school student is selected each month as the “Artist of the Month” and is recognized before the entire middle and high school. Their art is on display for the entire month in the middle school building. Below are the middle school "Artists of the Month" for the 2011-2012 school year: 

Sydney Elliott - 7th Grade October 2011