Visual Arts

The Visual Arts Department strives to build student confidence and resilience to fundamentally transform students into creative learners using 21st-century skills.

Art is about communication, creativity and cooperation, and by studying art your children will have the opportunity to build on these skills, enrich their lives and experience the world from a new perspective. Art gives them a language that cuts across the disciplines and helps them to see connections, bringing a more coherent meaning to the world.

At Lipscomb Academy your child learns the fundamentals of art in a creative environment and in the context of art history. The curriculum has strong connections with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines and with the concept of experiment. The art program fosters their imagination, problem-solving and teamwork skills, the development of technique and their individual digital portfolios.

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Visual Art by School Level

Lower School

The visual arts program at the elementary school involves every child and focuses on building creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills that equip your student for future real-world and educational experiences through art-making processes, art history, aesthetics and art criticism. A variety of media encourage your young artist to reach beyond ordinary art-making techniques. They will encounter paint, charcoal, oil pastels, clay, weaving/textile arts, printmaking and collage while becoming familiar with the elements of art and principles of design.

Middle School

The middle and high school art studios are located adjacent to one another to promote collaboration between instructors and access to shared resources such as kilns, a darkroom for traditional photography methods, computers for digital photography, and an outdoor deck area for work in natural lighting and ventilation. Middle schoolers have opportunities to take both broad exploratory classes and elective art classes to provide more in-depth experiences.

Upper School

High schoolers have the opportunity to take art classes each of the four years: Art I, semester courses in two-dimensional and three-dimensional, painting and photography, Graphic Design, Textile Arts, and AP Studio Art for students who have met the necessary prerequisites. In addition, students have access each semester to art shows and lectures by professional artists from across the nation just by walking across campus to Lipscomb University’s John Hutcheson Gallery.

Throughout our art program there is an emphasis on "green" art, teaching the importance of being good stewards of our environment through responsible practices in recycling.