A room tour is a requirement for all students taking art classes. Students must familiarize themselves with our equipment and where it all is in order to get the most out of their experience. In order to not get too much out of their experience, such as a trip to the nurse, or worse, we also cover safety issues involved in each art class with each piece of equipment, or media used. This is done as early in the course as possible. Along with this we also require certain types of behavior in our classes due to the environment the students are surrounded by. We have a form that parents and students will sign that informs students of the type of behaviors we expect in our classes.
As you follow our different rooms and the tours, you will see what types of equipment we have been blessed to have here at Salem, and what a great facility we have!
A view of the drawing and painting classroom looking toward the front of the room.
The second half of the drawing and painting, looking to the back of the room.
A student getting some good clay from the recycling room.
Main ceramics studio showing student storage, glazes and trim wheels.
Main ceramics studio looking toward the front of room.
Ceramics holding rack for items to be fired, and part of our two electric large capacity kilns.
Two of our large electric kilns.
Our ceramics department is blessed to have six excellent wheels for the students to work on.
A student rolls out her clay on our large capacity slab roller.
Salem High School is blessed to have one of the best computer graphic design labs in the Roanoke Valley. Our lab has 15 graphics computers, a teacher work station, a large format 24” wide color printer and other materials to work with along with a small studio to do creative photography.
A view of our lab showing the teachers work station and some of the computers.
Our display case in the lab where students can display their work.
This is our 24” wide HP color dye printer for the output of student work.
