Visual Arts
Students of visual arts work to enhance the creative skills that help great students meet and exceed our highest expectations. The skills and intellectual muscles practiced by young minds, working toward the creation of new works and assessing and solving design problems, creates a pattern of critically examining ideas that aid our young adult learners in every facet of life.
Art and design does not exist separate from the rest of the world. Artists and designers work closely with historians, scientists, writers, business people, engineers, and others to create and discover. In art class, Tourtellotte Memorial High School students not only create art, but learn how to look at, discuss, and write about art & design in all settings.

FOUNDATIONS OF ART COURSE NUMBER: 1500
Academic – Grades 9-12
Semester – .5 Credit
Class Description...
School-wide Expectations: 1, 2A, and 4
SCULPTURE COURSE NUMBER: 1506
Academic – Grades 9-12
Semester – .5 credits
Class Description...
Prerequisite: A 75 or better in Foundations of Art School-wide Expectations: 1, 4, and 5A
DRAWING AND PAINTING COURSE NUMBER: 1501
Academic – Grades 9-12
Semester – .5 Credit
Class Description...
Prerequisite: A 75 or better in Foundations of Art
School-wide Expectations: 1, 2A, and 4
ART APPRECIATION COURSE NUMBER: 1502
Academic – Grades 9-12
Semester – .5 Credit
Class Description...
Prerequisite: A 75 or better in Foundations of Art
School-wide Expectations: 2C, 4, and 5A
AP STUDIO ART COURSE NUMBER: 1507
AP – Grades 11-12
Full Year – 1 HS Credit 3 College Credits
Class Description...
*Note: Students are required to complete 3 artworks over the summer before the course begins in the fall. The work is within the first week of class. Students will meet with the teacher at the end of the previous year to receive their summer assignments.
Prerequisite: A “B” or better in Foundations of Art, and Drawing and Painting or Sculpture and obtain written approval from the teacher
School-Wide Expectations: 1, 2, and 4
PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE NUMBER: 1504
Honors – Grades 9-12
Semester – .5 Fine Arts or .5 Technology
Class Description...
School-wide Expectations: 3 and 4