Pixar
This trip is a collaboration of the art, computer and English departments. The activities leading up to the trip include creating a flip book, writing a script, illustrating a storyboard, creating clay figures for claymation and putting this all together to create a film.
SF Museum of Modern Art
Inspired by the Chuck Close self-portrait show, the advance Drawing and Painting students paint their own self-portraits using various painting techniques by contemporary artists.
Legion of Honor
Based on the Fashion/Anti-Fashion show at the Legion, the Drawing and Painting class combine clothing, stretched canvas and paint to create spectacular personal abstract images.
Asian Art Museum
Every year the Studio Art class visits the Asian to work with a master Chinese brush painter and learn the techniques in this non-western way of painting. In addition, the day includes a docent-led tour of the museum and sketching in the galleries.
de Young Museum
With the opening this year of the beautiful new state-of-the-art facility, the Art History and studio classes have been able to enjoy art, architecture and natural landscape in one. This includes the Egyptian Hatshepsut visiting exhibit, the permanent Andy Goldsworthy environmental sculpture and the copper-clad building housing the whole works.
di Rosa Preserve
This preserve in Napa displays art in a 100 year old winery-turned residence, new galleries, 200 acres of rolling meadows, lush gardens and even a 35 acre lake. It is a culmination of four years of art education for the Art History and Advanced art students to see first-class contemporary local art in a glorious setting.
Workshops
This includes the Drawing and Painting students visiting the KALA Art Institute in Berkeley. KALA is a printmaking studio and offered the students a day long workshop devoted to the basic techniques of printmaking.
Figure drawing from the model
The studio art students will have the opportunity to draw from a live professional model. This type of drawing is a must for the serious art student’s portfolio.
TMS Annual Jazz and Art Show
At the end of every school year, the art, photography and film students show off their work at this annual show. It is a gala event with refreshments, art and films produced in the last school year and a concert by TMS Jazz Band.
Visiting artists
Prominent artists and photographers share their expertise with TMS students. Among those are Sisse Brimberg, a National Geographic photographer; Larry Sultan, a photographer known for his community art; and Mark Darley, a widely published architectural photographer.
Cross-curricular activities
Photography and Spanish departments host an evening field trip to SOMARTS to view Day of the Dead altars. Each year they create altars at the school with their respective classes. Photo and history departments created on a “Photographer as Activist” project during which students toured the Sixth Street Photographers Studio, a nonprofit organization that offers photography classes and facilities to low income and homeless people.
Art shows
Every years students participate in a variety of Marin County art shows including; “Celebrate the Arts”, the Artisan Gallery, the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce Gallery, Caledonia Street Fair in Sausalito and the Marin County Fair.
After school art activities
The Photography Club Saturday field trips include Angel Island, Alcatraz Island, Sausalito waterfront, Golden Gate Park, Chinatown and West Marin. An after school “Portfolio Workshop” offers students the opportunity to develop their work and build a body of work for college admissions.