The Visual Arts at Germantown Academy: November 2012

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.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Senior Spotlight: J. Towne

The Ten

Performing, Cheerleading

Not getting dropped on my head in cheerleading,

Football, My family, Disney World

Anything Disney related, high heels

The Little Mermaid, Animal print

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Katrinna Whiting '09 stops by GA to share stories….

...of life as an artschool student.

Katrinna Whiting currently a senior at Maryland Institute College of Art studying graphic design, swung by the studios to chat with Amy Zhang and Jackie Lawlor about the artschool experience. After some initial second thoughts about taking the art school route, Katrinna is now incredibly happy. At first she missed the liberal arts well- rounded approach to academics, but once she got into her major fully, she said she realized there are different and equally valid types of knowledge…. “I love MICA-it’s known as the Harvard of the art school world. They value risk taking and have totally prepared me for the world beyond college. I have already been approached with job offers. Right now I am working with the Baltimore mayor’s office on a social design campaign that focuses on inner city development and renewal”. Equally valuable to Katrinna has been MICA’s relationship to Johns Hopkins University. She has been able to take a class for free every semester and has taken advantage of that by studying calculus and a class that explores and utilizes “ArcGIS” a program that combines design, statistical data and geographic information systems.