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, April 8, 2015

1st Grade Arts

Invented City Scapes

First grade artists learned how buildings can have different types of windows, doors, domes, and roofs. They each designed one building stamp by drawing into Scratch Foam and enjoyed sharing their stamps to create their own printed, invented cityscapes.

Clay Owls

After reading Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, 1st grade artists made clay pinch pots, attached slabs of
clay and used tools to add texture to create their own owls.

Laurel Burch Inspired Cats

Artist Laurel Burch is well known for her abstract cats. First graders learned how to draw a cat in the style of this artist and used the sgraffito technique by scratching the back of a paintbrush to make
designs in the wet paint

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