Forman School is an independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students with identified learning differences. Forman develops the whole student, based on each individual’s learning profile, so that all graduates become educated, confident self-advocates throughout life.
Calling all creative risk-takers, image-makers, and inventive minds.
In Forman’s Visual Arts Program, creativity takes flight. Build skills, collaborate with peers, and learn to see the world differently across a wide range of disciplines—from ceramics to jewelry-making. All classes are available at beginner and advanced levels.
Visual arts classes
Each year, our visual arts offerings adapt to match student interests. Whatever the class, faculty nurtures independent thinking, problem-solving, and confidence, while helping interested students build persuasive college portfolios.
Studio arts
From printmaking—learning how to create linocut, woodcut, and monoprints—to foundational, hands-on subjects in architecture, metalsmithing, and ceramics, our studio arts offerings fuse practical skills with perspective-shifting discourse.
Classes available:
Introductory Ceramics
Ceramics
Studio Art
Advanced Studio Art
Visual Arts Portfolio (juniors, seniors, and PGs)
Painting and drawing
Beginner and advanced classes designed to enrich students’ thinking and technical abilities. Make and stretch your own canvases, fabricate mixed-media works, compose a competitive college application portfolio, or produce graphic posters with programs like InDesign.
Classes available:
Multiple Mediums: Drawing, Painting, and Photography
Drawing and Painting
Storytelling through Illustration
Culinary arts
How do our culinary choices impact the world’s food system? These classes connect the dots between history, agriculture, and modern-food industries. You’ll learn practical cooking skills too—from making ferments like sauerkraut and kimchi to taking care of a sourdough starter, curing and braising meats, and producing your own cheeses.
Classes available:
Local and Seasonal Food Preservation & Fermentation
Great American Bake-Off
Kitchen Confidence: Cooking Made Simple
Photography
Be it film or digital, editing or photographic theory, classes cover all the ways you want to explore making images—plus, there’s a darkroom and green screen on hand.
Classes available:
Introduction to Digital Photography
Darkroom Photography
Advanced Photography
Video and film
Master the art of creative communication. These workshop-based subjects span expressive realms, such as stop-motion animation, documentary production, screenplay writing, student journalism, and more. You’ll hone skills like pitching and editing news articles, creating promotional material, directing cameras and lighting, and critical analysis.
Classes available:
Introduction to Narrative Filmmaking
Advanced Narrative Fiction Filmmaking
Documentary Filmmaking
Screenwriting
Advertising
Want to discover what happens when art meets science?
In Forman’s Promethean Lab, you’ll be able to do just that. Solve problems that matter to you in a practical way: making prototypes with 3D printers, testing ideas on animation software, using plasma cutters, designing with architecture software, and more.
