Visual Arts

NMH’s visual arts courses give you a dizzying choice of media and techniques, so you can create artwork as varied as linoleum prints, digital images, pastel drawings, ceramic vessels, and three-dimensional assemblages — among many others. Many of our courses have multiple levels, which allows students to both develop skills, learn foundational art and design vocabulary, build from there. Our AP classes (Drawing, 2D Design, 3D Design, and Advanced Drawing and Painting) provide opportunities for student-artists to develop an individual portfolio for college applications. NMH graduates have gone on to institutions like Parsons School of Design, the Tisch School at NYU, Maryland Institute College of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rhode Island School of Design. All visual arts courses are taught in the Rhodes Arts Center. Classroom instruction is supplemented by optional open-studio hours during the afternoon and evening, and it’s during this time that many students begin to explore individual ideas and themes that are collectively presented in a studio-class environment.

One of the truly special things about studying art at NMH is that you’ll be surrounded by inspiring work from all disciplines. The frequent exhibits in the Gallery at the Rhodes Arts Center feature the work of nationally recognized artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Bourgeois. So if your class happens to be working on collages or abstract sculpture, the work of some contemporary masters might be right outside your studio door. In addition to being surrounded by great art, you’ll be surrounded by great teachers who maintain studio space in the Rhodes Arts Center. When they’re not helping you with your work, they’re making their own. You’re all artists in the same community, sharing ideas and encouragement and celebrating one another’s creativity.

Acting Department Chair 2020–21 lscottcorwin@nmhschool.org

• Advanced Drawing and Painting

Portfolio • Advanced 2D Portfolio • Advanced 3D Portfolio • AP 3D Design • AP Drawing • Arts Foundations in the Visual Arts (Ninth graders are required to take a Foundations course in visual arts or performing arts.) • Ceramics I, II • Darkroom Photography I, II • Digital Photography I, II • Drawing and Composition I, II • Graphic Design • Intensive Studio • Painting I, II • Sculptural Forms I, II • Stop Motion Animation • Two Dimensional Design • Video as Visual Art I, II

• Beginning with Clay • Drawing • Exploring Watercolor • Introduction to Illustration • Plein Air Painting • Portrait Sculpture

Please see the Curriculum Guide (bit.ly/NMHVisualArts) for course descriptions.

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