Creative Arts & Expression

• Includes techniques like pencil drawing, charcoal, pastels, and ink sketches.

• Focuses on creating two-dimensional images using lines and shading.

• Encompasses various painting styles such as watercolor, acrylic, oil, and gouache.

• Involves using brushes and pigments to create colorful and expressive artworks.

Visual Arts

• Encompasses techniques like linocut, woodcut, etching, and screen printing.

• Involves creating artworks by transferring ink from a matrix or stencil onto paper or canvas.

• Involves creating art using digital tools and software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or digital painting apps.

• Includes digital painting, 3D modeling, and graphic design.

• Includes various genres such as portrait, landscape, macro, and street photography.

• Focuses on capturing moments and scenes using cameras and lenses.

• Includes traditional sculpture with clay, stone, or metal, as well as modern techniques like assemblage and found object sculpture.

• Focuses on creating three-dimensional artworks, often in the form of statues or abstract structures.

• Involves combining different materials and techniques, such as collage, decoupage, and combining painting with other materials.

• Provides a versatile and experimental approach to artistic expression.

• Includes acting, directing, and stage design.

• Focuses on live performances of scripted plays, improvisational theater, and musicals.

• Encompasses various dance styles such as ballet, jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, and traditional folk dances.

• Involves choreography, dance techniques, and performance.

• Includes playing musical instruments such as piano, guitar, violin, and drums.

• Encompasses singing, songwriting, and composition.

• Focuses on both classical and contemporary musical genres.

Performing Arts

• Involves singing with orchestral accompaniment and dramatic performances.

• Combines music, acting, and elaborate stage design.

• Often includes elaborate costumes and sets.

• Encompasses activities like acrobatics, juggling, aerial silk, and trapeze.

• Involves physical skills and daring performances.

• Often includes clowning and comedy acts.

• Includes performing magic tricks and illusions to entertain an audience.

• Involves sleight of hand, misdirection, and psychological tricks.

• Often combined with storytelling and theatrical elements.

• Involves writing and performing comedic sketches or stand-up routines.

• Focuses on timing, delivery, and audience interaction.

• Includes improv comedy, sketch comedy, and sitcom writing.

• Involves creating imaginative and fictional stories.

• Encompasses genres such as mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction.

• Focuses on character development, plot, dialogue, and setting.

• Involves writing expressive and rhythmic verses.

• Encompasses various forms like sonnets, haikus, free verse, and spoken word poetry.

• Focuses on imagery, metaphor, and emotion.

• Includes writing factual and informative pieces.

• Encompasses genres such as essays, biographies, memoirs, travel writing, and journalism.

• Focuses on research, interviews, and presenting information in a compelling manner.

• Involves writing scripts for movies, television, and theater productions.

• Focuses on dialogue, scenes, and visual storytelling techniques.

• Includes understanding the structure of acts and scenes.

• Combines factual information with creative elements.

• Encompasses genres such as personal essays, narrative journalism, and autobiographical writing.

• Focuses on storytelling while adhering to factual accuracy.

• Involves creating very short stories, often under 1,000 words.

• Focuses on concise storytelling, capturing a moment or a concept in a brief narrative.

Literary Arts