The Visual Arts at Germantown Academy: November 2011

Program Description

The Visual Art Department at Germantown Academy is committed to providing a comprehensive education in the arts within the context of a liberal arts education. Our foundation and advanced curriculum is a well-rounded and versatile approach to the study and application of art. It is designed to provide a creatively stimulating education in an open environment of studio classes. Experimentation and innovation, collaboration and social responsibility are themes built into the curriculum. While these courses extend excellent opportunities for the general study of art and life-long arts advocacy, they are also designed to cultivate serious talents in the visual arts. Many of our students have gone on to prominent careers in commercial, fine, and applied arts.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Sculpture Students Working on Tower Project

Sculpture students are currently assembling towers that are at least twice their own height. Sculpture teacher Sara Ritz believes that creating large scale pieces feels greatly empowering. This project gives her students a chance to experiment with scale.

Senior Spotlight: J. Xie

J. Xie's The Ten
Home, Jhumpa Lahiri, Noah and the Whale, sunshine, Catcher in the Rye, Aziz Ansari, Hilton Head Island, Honecrisp Apples, laughter, New York City

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Zea Mays Print Collaborative at Germantown Academy in Art Center Gallery

Master printmaker Lynn Peterfreund was an artist in residence in the Lower and Upper School art departments for several days in early November. She brought with her a collection containing the most exceptionally rendered prints from one of the world's only green printmaking studios, Zea Mays, located in Florence, MA. In addition to her gallery talk to Upper School students, Lynn Peterfreund worked with Lower School students in Ms. Grisafi's fourth grade classes.

Lyell Castonguay

Anita Hunt

Liz Chaffin

Maya Malachowski Bajak

Lynn Peterfreund

Monday, November 21, 2011

Senior Spotlight: M. Oberkicher

M. Oberkicher's The Ten

Chocolate chip cookies, aqua blue, shadows, horses, Toms shoes, pearl earrings, Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, Disney movies, the smell of cinnamon, autumn

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Drexel National Photography Contest Deadline

The deadline for the highly acclaimed Drexel National High School Photography Competition is right around the corner, Dec 4m 2011. Click below for more details on the contest. This competition is open to all young artists who have made work in photography. Last year, K Tanner, current;y a GA junior, won third place honors with an abstract color diptych.

http://drexel.edu/westphal/undergraduate/PHTO/PhotoContest2011/

K Koons' Photographs in Philadelphia Magazine

Senior K. Koon's a forth year student of photography, has had several of her photographs published in Philadelphia Magazine illustrating a fundraising event, Click on the link below to read and see more.

http://www.phillymag.com/party_pictures/gallery.html?gallery=328299&return=%2Fparty_pictures%2Findex.html

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Visual Arts Faculty Annual Exhibition

Each year, the visual arts faculty from all divisions exhibit new art works. Below is just a sampling from the show that took place from October through November.