{"id":533,"date":"2025-07-03T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/?page_id=533"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:56:47","slug":"visual-art-photography-and-media-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/departments\/visual-and-performing-arts\/visual-art-photography-and-media-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Art, Photography, and Media Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visual Arts at NWSS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Visual and media arts programs at NWSS encourage creative exploration. From traditional drawing, painting and sculpture to photography, digital media and animation, students have opportunities to develop both technical ability and creative voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Courses offered by our department are based on the province\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/curriculum.gov.bc.ca\/curriculum\/arts-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arts education curriculum<\/a>. Examples of available courses (may differ from year to year) include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>GRADE 9<\/th><th>GRADE 10<\/th><th>GRADE 11<\/th><th>GRADE 12<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Visual Arts 9: 2D and 3D<\/td><td>Art Studio 10<\/td><td>Art Studio 11<\/td><td>Art Studio 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Studio Art 2D: Drawing and Painting 10<\/td><td>Studio Art 2D: Drawing and Painting 11<\/td><td>Studio Art 2D: Drawing and Painting 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Studio Art 3D: Sculpture and Beyond 10<\/td><td>Studio Art 3D: Sculpture and Beyond 11<\/td><td>Studio Art 3D: Sculpture and Beyond 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Photography 10<\/td><td>Graphic Arts 11<\/td><td>Graphic Arts 12<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>IB Visual Arts 11<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For detailed course information, requirements, availability, etc., refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/students\/course-selection\/\">most current course description booklet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Arts at NWSS Visual and media arts programs at NWSS encourage creative exploration. From traditional drawing, painting and sculpture to photography, digital media and animation, students have opportunities to develop both technical ability and creative voice. Courses Courses offered by our department are based on the province\u2019s arts education curriculum. Examples of available courses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":205,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions\/565"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}