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Ceramics & Visual Art

Ceramics and Visual Art
at Whitman MS

Art is where all students are welcome!

Use your experience and knowledge to celebrate and communicate your ideas, unique perspective, and culture through your art.

Meet the Visual Art Teacher

Dever Dunnett

Dever K. Dunnett (she/her)

  • Born in Casper, WY
  • Became WA resident 1991
  • Associate of Arts, Casper College, Casper, WY
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
  • Master’s in Teaching, City University, Everett, WA

Art Courses at Whitman

Beginning Ceramics

  • Work with your hands & build things
  • Hands on building (pinch, coil, slab, sculpting, maybe wheel work!)
  • Learn techniques for color & decoration
  • Collaborate, manage studio/materials, tools, and equipment.
  • No previous experience necessary.
  • This course may be repeated for credit.

Advanced Ceramics

  • Express yourself!
  • Experimenting with advanced hand building techniques
  • Refine adding color and details to projects
  • Connect cultures to art
  • This course may be repeated for credit

Beginning Visual Art

  • Spark your imagination
  • Express yourself with media: draw, paint, sculpt, and create
  • Explore & experiment so you feel supported
  • Celebrate your unique perspective, ideas, culture, and feeling
  • We work on individual and group projects.

Advanced Visual Art

  • Keep growing creativity & artistic skills
  • Reflect on life experiences, community, and culture
  • Creating individual and group projects
  • Try more advance drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, clay, and paper mâché.
  • This course may be repeated for credit.

Art Course Information

  • In our Ceramic Courses, students create various clay items using pinch, coil, slab, sculpting, and possibly wheel methods and learn a variety of glaze techniques and decoration methods. Advanced classes continue exploring ceramics, building on previous clay skills and concepts with emphasis on advanced hand building and possible wheel work. Artist build proficiency and enhance the refinement of their work. Self-expression and personal vision are emphasized. Courses may be repeated for credit.
  • In our Visual Art Courses, we create art and explore/experiment with drawing, painting, sculpture, and more. Artists reflect on, express, and celebrate our unique ideas, feelings, and moods, while learning about the Elements of Art and Principles of Design. In the fun continuation of Visual Arts, students persist in their 2-D and 3-D art skills such as drawing, painting, and sculpting.
  • Both art classes practice creative studio habits in a collaborative learning environment.

Annual Naramore Art Show

The Naramore Art Show, a partnership between Seattle Public School and the Seattle Art Museum features over 200 works of art by Seattle Public School Middle & High School Students. SPS has held the Naramore Art Show since 1985 to celebrate the brilliance of emerging artists and share their creativity with the greater Seattle community.