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Notes on Translation
The electronic translation service on the York Region District School Board's website is hosted by Google Translate. The quality of the translation will vary in some of the languages offered by Google. Google Translate is a free service and currently offers translation in over 50 languages, although an impressive number, this does not capture all languages or dialects. The basic translation’s goal is to capture the general intention of the original English material.
The York Region District School Board does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any translated information. Before you act on translated information, the Board encourages you to confirm any facts that are important to you and affect any decisions you may make.
The York Region District School Board is committed to parent, family and community engagement, and it is our hope that by providing this tool on our website that we are making our information more accessible to families whose first language is not English and thereby enabling better engagement in public education.
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Visual Arts Department
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Visual Arts Department
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Page Content Adventurous Artists
Welcome to the Visual Arts program!
What is Creativity?
Creativity is making associations between existing forms, colours and structures which then form patterns and ideas that become content and communicate with viewers. Art relates to creativity as math relates to logic - it is a unique way to understand the world. With this idea as departure point, students in the Visual Arts department have a mission to test the limits of normally accepted ‘art’. New ideas, based on new associations, result in new forms of creativity. This is a core belief in our department.
· We educate art students for the future, keeping in line with current developments in the arts and contemporary technologies as well as contemporary views of art and creativity. Teachers are current on these matters
· We believe in a problem-solving approach to art education. Students must be able to set individual goals in class to reach unique solutions
· We believe in student-centred and not teacher-centred classes. Curriculum is adapted and modified to serve our students.
· Every year a large number of our senior Visual Arts students apply to study art, design and film at universities and colleges – a feather in our cap! The feedback we get from these institutions is usually positive, since our students are well prepared.
· Theory is important in our delivery
· Teachers combine their professional skills and energy to create a strong artistic team.
Teachers
Ms. Moore
Department Head
Mrs. Litvack
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