Traverse City Area Public Schools K-12 Art Department. Envision. Empower. Enact. Make your mark in the TCAPS art program!
TCAPS art lessons are designed to allow the individual student to solve visual problems using her or his own unique vision.
01/29/2025
Xin nian kuai le (新年快乐) is a Mandarin phrase that means "Happy New Year “. January 29 marks the beginning of 15 days of celebration throughout the world as the New Moon 🌑 begins. 3rd grade artists learned 2025 is the Year of the Snake! They brought creativity to life and learned to also try Hanzi, the written language in their lucky red 🏮Westwoods Elementary School - TCAPS Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS)
11/14/2024
Painting students at TC Central explore perspectives and color schemes.
11/14/2024
Photo II students at West Senior High learn the “panning” technique with slow shutter speeds. The technique is used to convey speed, energy and motion while also have sharp details of the subject.
11/14/2024
Photo II students at West Senior High “beat the heat” in September on the 80 degree days with a fast shutter speed challenge using water balloons. Advanced photo students use Canon DSLRs and Adobe Lightroom; learning to shoot in full manual mode and edit in Lightroom for full creative control over their images.
05/26/2023
We’re sending our families a Very Cherry Great Memorial Holiday weekend! Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS)
Feliz Cinco de Mayo from Westwoods Elementary School - TCAPS !!
October 18, 1985 was the beginning of an era: NES and Super Mario Bros. 4th grade artists have been so excited to be “hired” as developers to create a bonus 5 second level. Enjoy our works in progress on opening day of the full length Super Mario Bros. movie!
Let’s a go!
03/01/2023
We love making meaningful connections fun! 5th grade artists at Willow Hill Elementary School - TCAPS formed embroidery circles while we chanted back with author Ashley Bryan and his book “Beautiful Blackbird”.
Students had a choice to celebrate influential black author and artist Ashley Bryan or to be inspired by March celebration of influential women and create tributes to the styles of Alma Woodsey Thomas. Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) ’shistorymonth
11/11/2022
Westwoods artists loved taking advantage of the sunshine! Students reflected and shared while creating their Masks inspired by October studies of Central American and Hispanic Heritage month; then diving directly into November and Native American Heritage Awareness.
Students are connecting to how art has shaped human culture, and how art creation has help make us humanKind.
10/19/2022
5th Graders have shown us by connecting to Science and the History of Greek constellations as stars in our night sky, we can find our way. Humans make art, and creating Art makes us human. Way to go artists of Willow Hill Elementary School! Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS)
06/15/2022
The sky is the limit for all of our graduates and TCAPS artists! Thank you for your support this year friends and families! See you in the fall with more fantastic art! Willow Hill Elementary
06/10/2022
Our 1st graders missed the science unit covering the butterfly life cycle. That’s when we brought the science of camouflage and reflect of the color spectrum into art! Each student reused cardboard and created a two sided blue morpho. We also made them hang so the light can reflect off the blue iridescent scales. Enjoy! Westwoods Elementary School - TCAPS