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.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Web 2.0 Tool Makes Online Portfolios A Breeze!

Upper school art students are about to get a big helping hand on constructing their online art portfolios in the form of Carbonmade a free site made by designers frustrated at the expense and complexity of creating online portfolios. Easy to use it is becoming the go to source for students developing portfolios.

Songwriting Students Give Online Access to Their Music

Dainis Roman and Jim Wade along with their songwriting students have moved their wares to the web by creating a site for this years music releases. You can also scan to download by using a scan APP on your Smart phone. Students will have QR codes strategically positioned in the House lounges for the next two weeks. You can also scan the code to your right directly from this screen.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Drawing Students Find Order and Chaos in Nature

Dave Love's drawing students have been spending long hours in GAs vegetable garden making drawings that deal with the challenge of working from a source with a large quantity of information and learning to make selective choices regarding details and form.

Monday, May 6, 2013

GA Artists to exhibit at The Woodmere Art Museum

David Love's Advanced Painting and Drawing students will have a selection of their prints on display at The Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, PA.

The exhibit showcases the work of "Prints Link Philadelphia". PLP brings
together a group of educators from diverse communities and age groups
( inner city, suburban, private, public and charter) to develop and
highlight the art of printmaking.

The show at Woodmere will feature the prints of 8-10 different schools. The
work exhibited will be based on/or inspired by curricula developed in
response to the "Full Spectrum" exhibit at The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
which highlighted Brandywine Workshop and their 40th year anniversary as a
nationally renown print center.