Kempsey High School's CAPA Faculty provides a fantastic array of extra curricular activities which incorporates students from Year 7 to Year 12.
Within this faculty KHS offers students of Visual Arts an exciting and wide range of opportunities in areas of art making, the study of art criticism and art history.
In Art making, students create their own artworks to represent ideas and meaning. They use the roles and relationships in Artworld concepts to generate ideas and make choices for their art making. Using Viewpoints, students explore the ways they can represent ideas and adopt different approaches to art making. Students shape their art making through an understanding of artists’ practices and approaches and develop the skills to make intentional artworks. For some students, art making may include the use of assistive technology.
In Stage 4, students acquire knowledge and understanding of the Artworld concepts, learning to apply Viewpoints to support their intentions, choices and actions as artists. They use the Visual Arts diary to experiment with techniques and materials to develop ideas. Students produce individual or collaborative artworks in a range of art forms and develop skills with increasing autonomy.
In Stage 5, students continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of the Artworld concepts, applying Viewpoints to support their intentions, choices and actions as artists. Students research bodies of work created by a range of artworld practitioners to inform their art making and use the Visual Arts diary to refine their ideas. Students develop a body of work as a collection of artworks over the course of Stage 5, demonstrating their understanding of Practice in increasingly complex and independent ways.
In Stage 6, students pursue a deeper, increasingly more independent investigations resulting in a major "body of work" Students can work in many expressive forms including, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, computer digital imaging, multimedia, design to film making and animation.
In Art critical and historical studies, students examine and develop explanations of artworks and the artworld in a variety of written, oral and multimodal forms. The relationships set out in Artworld concepts are used to interpret the meaning and significance of artworks and the artworld. Using Viewpoints, students can construct different interpretations of artworks and the artworld. Through Art critical and historical studies they develop their understanding of the practices of artworld practitioners to enable them to represent their point of view about artworks. Some students may require the use of assistive technology to access art critical and historical studies.
In Stage 4, students acquire knowledge and understanding of the Artworld concepts, learning to apply Viewpoints to support their intentions, choices and actions as art critics and art historians. They explore artworks across different places, times, cultures and contexts and develop skills that enable them to interpret the artworld. Students produce written, oral and multimodal texts to demonstrate their understanding of the value and meaning of artworks and artworld.
In Stage 5, students continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of the Artworld concepts, applying Viewpoints to support their intentions, choices and actions as art critics and art historians. They interpret artworks across different places, times, cultures and contexts and investigate the practices of a range of artworld practitioners to inform and justify their positions as art critics and art historians. Students can develop sustained arguments, explanations, reviews, curatorial statements or expositions in written, oral and multimodal texts to demonstrate their understanding of the value and meaning of artworks and artworld.
In Stage 6, students deepen their knowledge and understanding of key concepts - critical and historical studies. By Year 12 students will submit a "Body of Work" in an expressive form of their choice and deepen their critical and historical knowledge through 5 case studies culminating in a written exam.
