Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Graphic Novel in the Locker Gallery


Dr. Friedman writes of the current Locker Gallery Exhibition:

In the spring of 2011, students in the “Graphic Novels” English elective spent the semester reading graphic novels, including Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, and Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese.   At their final project, they were asked to choose one meaningful, inspirational, traumatic or memorable moment from their lives and illustrate it in the form of a brief chapter of a graphic novel – that is, narratives that tell a story through sequential art, a blend of words and pictures.  In these panels excerpted from their work, you can see how students successfully employed the visual devices and strategies they learned about in our reading.
  

Participating students

“Day Dream” by Chris Harvey (‘12)
“Red, White, Blue … and Black” by Esther Min (‘12)
“The Dino Dig Kit” by Pratik Patel (‘12)
“Spilled Milk” by Chandra Patel (‘11)
“Fear” by Allie Zamarin (‘12)
“Pricked by the Thorn” by Adam Sjoholm (‘12)







Monday, April 22, 2013

Senior Spotlight: Z. Ross


TheTen

Ford Raptor, flying, zero gravity
breaking physics, breakfast foods, Ben Folds music,
my horses, TopGear UK, long car rides, the piano



Thursday, April 18, 2013

GA and Loomis Chaffe Print Exchange

An exhibit exploring the art of  printmaking is on view in the Sculpture and Painting corridor of the Art Center. The exhibit features "printed" work from the GA Lower, Middle and Upper School, along with some of its faculty. A secondary exhibit features  printed work from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT as part of print exchange with the GA Upper School.