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, May 22, 2012

Art and English Faculty Exhibit

In the Honors Art Gallery through the end of the school year,  students can see the collaborative creative efforts of the English and Visual Arts faculty. Creative collaboration has been around for hundreds of years, but it is enjoying a resurgence in the contemporary arts scene. Spearheaded by Stephanie McConnell and David Love, the English faculty created writings and the arts faculty of the upper and lower school, responded to them. The result of their efforts range from printmaking to drawing, sculpture to mixed mixed media collage.







Wednesday, May 16, 2012

College NIght for the Visual Arts

Last evening, GA Alums Ashley Begley and Amy Canavan, along with parent and master chocolatier, Tom Sciascia were our guest panelists for our annual College night held each spring.  Current students and their parents heard first hand about preparing portfolios for college, choosing between liberal arts colleges and universities and art schools, careers in the arts, and the value of mentors and internships in creative fields.



Monday, May 14, 2012

Small Metals Club takes Field Trip to Lambertville

On Saturday May 5 nine members of the small metals club awoke very early to head to The Golden Nugget antique market to search for treasures they could re-purpose into jewelry.  After a number of hours in the cold and damp, the group returned back to GA with lots of ideas for new work and all the more inspired for having foraged for the materials themselves.


Monday, May 7, 2012

Moments in Time

Sculpture students work on sculptural books inspired by Joseph Cornell and Mexican Retablos.