Course Description
This is a "practical" course--you will learn Art History by creating your own art! The virtual learning space is an artist's studio. This studio will be your workplace to share insights, collections, inspirations, and to critique each other's work in order to develop ideas.

This is a "thematic" approach to Art history --rather than chronological. Ideas within the themes of self-portrait, conflict, simplicity, storytelling, and the natural world will be explored. You will collect and create art that communicates your own ideas of each theme. After traveling to online art museums and artists' studios and creating a drawing, painting, ink wash and a handmade book, you will design your own exhibit!

This is a combination of traditional and modern methods! Traditional (drawing, painting) and modern (computer animation & image manipulation) media will be your tools. You will sketch, paint, draw, and collage into pages of a sketchbook. These pages will be scanned or photographed with a digital camera and inserted onto the monitors of your classmates' computer screens! Technology will transform your art, ideas, comments, critiques, sketches, and collections into an interactive and collaborative Art History.

Delivery Method

• Email
• Internet
• Streaming Audio
• Streaming Video
• Telephone

Prerequisites
None, but students must have access to scanner or digital camera. Students may be required to download (free) software from the Internet.

Course Materials
Virtual High School will have course materials, if any, shipped directly to students. While there is no additional cost for course materials, there is an additional charge for return shipping. Students are required to return such course materials to course instructor upon completion of the course.