An important element of the Montclair Cooperative School art curriculum is that it is directly connected to the classroom studies and activities. Thus, creative expression and learning are intertwined. As the students learn about their course work they are also exposed to artistic technique, materials and art history.   

The principles of art and the elements of design are at the heart of everything we do in the art program.  The elementary and middle school art curriculum standards are used as a guide. 

Selection of class projects:  portraits: scaling and value, figure drawing/comic book page, observation drawing, shibori/indigo dye, felting, color study, sculpture, drawings 1 and 2 Point perspective, e-maki/manga/anime, Day of the Dead sculls, collage, automatons, applied use of perspective in a landscape, botanical garden: observation drawing, still life drawings…