Studio Art Department
This department supports individuality as well as community advancement & achievement of human development, social skills, and economic growth within society. Visual Arts enables students to develop personal, intellectual, and inter/intra personal skills through cultivating curiosity and creativity in its classes. Graduation requirements require at least one year of Art. Students sometimes take more than one year via elective options that come up in their program.
2024-2025 Teacher(s): Jonathan Goldstein
Art I
In this course at BASE, the instructor helps them develop creativity, cooperation, discipline, analysis, and other important life skills. Arts education is meant to help students develop positive outlets for self-expression and exercise their voice and that happens in this class on a daily basis. Students learn about artists, art movements, and works of art that have influenced history and shaped the art world. They cover the evolution of art forms, techniques, symbols, and themes, and how art relates to social, political, and historical events. They also learn to critically analyze visual images and how they communicate and express the needs, ideals, and history of individuals and society. This course fulfills the one year graduation requirement for a high school Regents diploma.
Elective: Art Portfolio
In this course, students continue to thrive on exercising their self-expression and their voice in order to influence and motivate themselves and inspire their community with art. They will continue being passionate in an art classroom in order to build a portfolio of their artwork and audition skills if they plan on applying to career opportunities and colleges that request applicants to demonstrate their visual art skills. In this course, students will continue to hone their investigative skills with art concepts, visual principles and technical skills in 2D and 3D mediums.