Visual and Performing Arts
The American High School Visual and Performing Arts Department offers comprehensive and sequential instruction in a wide variety of courses. The Arts provide students meaningful ways to create, express, share, connect, and respond to others. Visual and Performing Arts classes allow students to solve problems, thinking critically and creatively, in a hands-on learning environment.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. - Mary Schmich
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
FUSD Arts Mission: “To nurture artistic literacy through creativity and expression, providing a foundation for a better understanding of the world and each person’s role in it.”
| Courses | Contact information |
| Architectural Design
Architectural Design (1, 2, 3, 4) |
Mackie McLoy, [email protected]
510-796-1776, ext. 57707 |
| Art
Art (1, 2) AP Art History Sculpture and Ceramics Studio Art |
Mackie McLoy, [email protected]
510-796-1776, ext. 57707 Megan Olson, [email protected] 510-796-1776, ext. 57706 |
| Dance
Dance (1, 2) |
Heather Martinez, [email protected]
510-796-1776, ext. 57614 |
| Digital Arts
Digital Photography (1, 2) Media Arts/ IT Technology 2-D Animation Web Page Design & Development |
Thomas Bartholomew-Couts (B.C.), [email protected]
510-796-1776, ext. 57711 |
| Drama
Drama (1, 2, 3, 4) Production and Stagecraft |
Savanna Benedetti, [email protected]
510-796-1776, ext. 57702 Luke Fornwald, [email protected] 510-796-1776, ext. 57311 |
| Music
Choir (1, 2) Guitar (1, 2) Band 1 (aka Concert Band) (Level 1 band course) Symphonic Band (Level 2 band course) Wind Ensemble (Level 3 band course) Jazz Ensemble (Spring semester only) Marching Band (Fall semester only) |
Richard F. Wong, [email protected]
510-796-1776, ext. 57708 |
See specific teachers regarding ROP and Ohlone connections, such as dual enrollment.