The Kinder HSPVA Visual Arts Department curriculum is designed to prepare students to study at the nation’s top arts conservatories. The program emphasizes idea development, critical thinking, technical skills, and robust study of art-related media. The coursework encourages students to incubate new ideas and teaches them to give and receive constructive criticism.
Your gifts to HSPVA Friends provide the guest artists, art supplies, and specialized technology students need to create their art from the initial concept to the final product.
Visual Arts students receive intensive training in a wide range of courses:
- Advertising Design
- Animation
- Art Criticism/Critical Thinking
- Art History
- Ceramics
- Conceptual Concerns
- Drawing
- Foundations of Design
- Mixed Media
- New Experiences (installation and performance)
- Painting
- Photography
- Photoshop
- Printmaking
- Sculpture (metal and wood)
- Video
You also provided an impressive roster of guest artists for critiques and masterclasses, including:
- Katy Anderson
- Alberto Careaga
- Nancy Douthey
- Amy C. Evans ’89
- Lisa E. Harris ’98
- Naomi Kuo
- Libby O’Bryan
- Edwin Smalling
- Anna Walker
- Isabel Wilson
- Astrid Yeager ’20
WATCH: PROJECTION WORK
Check out this short projection with a small screen by OHara Jimenez ’25.
You provide a long list of supplies that must be replenished throughout the year, including:
- Welding steel
- Lumber for sculpture and mixed media classes
- Textbooks for a new comprehensive art history course
- Sketchbooks
- Photo paper
- Paint and canvas
- Clay
- Dye
- Knitting and sewing supplies
CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2024!
