Fine Arts Academy
The Fine Arts Academy is for students ready to dive deeper into music, art, or theater while exploring the arts in new and exciting ways. This personalized program combines advanced coursework, co-curricular activities, and creative electives—encouraging both mastery in a primary discipline and growth in others.
Students complete 32 Fine Arts credits over four years, including a primary focus area and at least three credits in a secondary discipline, plus cross-curricular options in subjects like English and Social Studies. Graduates earn special cords and a diploma distinction, recognizing their dedication to creativity and achievement in the arts.
Visual Arts
Martin Luther offers a wide variety of art forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, graphic design, and animation. Students begin with Art Foundations where they will develop creative solutions to challenges based on a series of limitations in both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional designs and how they impact each other. AP Studio Art is available to students who have completed a determined number of prerequisites that relate to the student’s chosen medium; drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, and/or sculpture.
Visual Arts Competition
The Visual Arts Competition (VAC) is for art students in grades 9-12. The competition features studio categories involving a long-term project and an onsite short-term project. There is an annually changing theme that all work correlates with. Students can place individually and/or the team is able to advance to the Regional and State level. Competitors are involved in in-depth research on at least a dozen selected artists whose work relates to the year’s theme. Teams also compete in a “Critical Thinking” team project as well as an “Art History Quiz Bowl”.