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Visual Arts
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Guiding God-Given Artistic Talent
Training creativity and fine arts skill sets in visual art.
The MPCS visual arts program begins in preschool, with hands-on projects, color theory, and creative problem-solving. Lower school students study famous artists and are presented with challenging projects that imitate each artist's style. They experiment in various media, such as clay, glass, cardboard, wire, paper mâché, plaster, watercolors, oil paints, and fabric. Third grade takes on the task of turning raw sheep's wool into yarn through the technique of washing, combing, and dying the wool. Other classes explore and create art pieces through weaving.
Art classes at all levels provide students with a creative environment and encourage a desire to explore the history of art and the spiritual influences reflected through art. Middle schoolers study African masks, creating their own in terra cotta and researching the spirituality behind the mask art.
Fundamental Art Instruction
All preschool through fifth-grade students engage in visual art exploratory classes. The middle and high school visual arts program offers additional media studies and allows students to focus on one area of visual arts at each level.
Governor's Honors Finalists
This year, one MPCS student was selected to participate in the 2023 Georgia Governor’s Honors Program (GHP) as a visual arts major. Another art student was named alternate and four others earned finalist slots. GHP annually hosts a four-week-long college immersive program for hundreds of Georgia's best and brightest academicians and artists. Finalists represent the top quartile of the top percentile of the eligible student peer group in the state.
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Gallery of Works
Young artists from preschool to high school engage in visual art galleries and shows on campus every year.
