Visual Arts at Liberty is a vast program that offers many classes for students to explore their talent. The following courses can be taken as electives.

Art I

This course emphasizes basic elements of art and principles of design within the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking, and pottery. This course is designed to enhance the student's creative and technical abilities in art.

Advanced 2D Art

This course is designed to enhance students' abilities with two-dimensional art. Students will progress through advanced drawing concepts with graphite, charcoal, and ink.

Advanced 3D Art

This course is designed to enhance students' abilities with three-dimensional art. Functional pieces, relief sculpture, and sculpture will be explored with a variety of media. While hand-building with clay, students will create work that is structurally sound and visually elegant.

Art AP

This course is designed to help students create and develop a portfolio of artwork. Students choose to enter a portfolio in one area: 3D or 2D Design Drawing. Students create artwork for the concentration, breadth, and quality sections of their portfolio.

Art Photography

This course focuses on students' technical development with photography while honing their aesthetic sensibilities. Students improve their skills with digital cameras and become familiar with aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, and other technical aspects of photography.

Creative Writing

There will be a variety of writing assignments, including in-class responses, poems, character maps, story outlines, song lyrics, and plot summaries. Writing will serve as a method to practice skills in grammar, reading, spelling, and vocabulary.

Digital Art

Technical aspects of digital brushes, painting tools, and layering image adjustments will be explored. Elements of art and principles of design will be stressed as each student learns to navigate within computer programs to create original artwork

History and the Arts

This course provides a broad overview of different historical periods and artistic movements. Each quarter of the year covers a separate area of history, with required project expectations.

Journalism

Students learn different methods and strategies for delivering information in a variety of media, including the print newspaper, websites, podcasts, and digital video. Students learn basic journalistic techniques common to all media, including news gathering, interviewing, researching, writing, and editing.

Script Writing

In this course, students will learn the basics of writing scripts for stage and screen.  At the end of the course, students will write a full-length, complete script.

Theatre Design and Production

Students in this class will be responsible for the technical production of the numerous shows produced by LCS throughout the year.  This course provides excellent opportunities for students interested in not only theatre design, but also in architecture, engineering, interior design, and fashion design.

Vocal Methods

This course is designed to provide Chorale and non-Chorale students with vocal methods of theory, sight reading, aural skills, elementary piano, and vocal fundamentals and techniques.  Curriculum does not include ensemble or solo vocal performances.

Yearbook I

This class introduces students to journalism and page design using Jostens Yearbook Avenue.  Students learn to design page layouts, take photos, and create text (headlines, secondary headlines, and story write-ups).

Yearbook II

Students are expected to be the leaders in their classes, as well as produce more spreads with quality photos and text. Editing may be assigned to students who are responsible for organizing the ladder, editing pages in their sections, and teaching Yearbook I students the process of layout.