Senior Spotlight: S Tran

The Ten

1. Wacom Bamboo Tablet

2. My partners in crime (friends)

3. The blank feeling that follows after you wake up

4. Barbie

5. Scooby-Doo

6. Quiet atmospheres

7. Bottled water

8. NYFW

9. Big cities

10. Late nights

GA Wins Big at PA 10 Day Film Challenge

GA upper school students  had a great day at the PA 10 Day Film Fest which was held at the United Artists Riverview Plaza 17 & RPX in Philly yesterday where our student film makers won a number of awards and were nominated in the following categories:

Everything We Dreamed Of - written and produced by Gabe Alter & Niki Roman

Awards

Audience Choice Award

Best Sound

Best Overall Film 7th Place

Nominated for

Artistic Merit Award

Best Editing

Killing Time - written and produced by Sam Korman, Dylan Bass, and Bailey Whitman

Nominated for Best Opening Titles

 

"I couldn't be more  proud of our young filmmakers." Reports Dainis Roman, Media Teacher.  GA will be able to see this work on April 29th at the Best of GA video assembly next week.

First Grade Visits Michner Art Museum

First grade enjoyed a wonderful trip to Doylestown visiting the James A. Michener Museum of Art. They had the opportunity to observe and learn about contemporary artists, such as local painter Elizabeth Osborne, and experience sitting in the Nakashima reading room—an installation of classic Japanese furniture from the studio of Bucks County's internationally known woodworker, George Nakashima. 1st graders also enjoyed observing and making sketches of the Bucks County landscape collection and outdoor sculptures. What kind of artwork is it? - Following the trip to the Michener, 1st grade artists have been doing activities to learn more about classical Western art styles: landscape, portrait, and still life. In one activity, students had to work in teams to determine which category a piece of artwork fit into and explain it o their classmates. In another activity, students had to sort artwork based on which artist they thought created it.

GA Students Win The 10 Day Film Challenge

GA Students win the 10 Day Film Challenge

"Everything We Dreamed Of" is a depiction of a high school valedictorian's last minute struggles to complete his speech for graduation day. While he is drained from his intense writers block, he falls into a dream state that takes him back in time to a physical walk through of his entire childhood schooling experience from elementary days to his senior year. In remembering the impactful experiences of his days in grade school, he achieves an epiphany which ultimately allows him to complete his speech in time for graduation. Student Film Makers
Niki Roman and Gabe Alter.

"Killing Time" is a supernatural themed short film that follows Rick Wilson (Matt Gorman) after he finds a haunted egg timer that he found after the death of his grandfather. Despite many efforts to ditch the evil timer Rick continues to rediscover it, which in turn causes unnatural events to occur in his life. student Film Makers Matt Gorman and seniors Dylan Bass & Sam Korman.

New Installation in US Locker gallery

Second Grade Insect Pillows

After printing their insects on fabric, 2nd graders learned fabric techniques for how to make them into pillows. First, they traced their fabric onto a second piece of fabric, cut it out, and pinned their two pieces of fabric “right sides” together. Next, they used the sewing machine to sew around the edges, pulled their fabric “right side” out and stuffed their pillows. Their insect pillows are installed together outside the 2nd grade classrooms!  These students also began their next unit on painting by learning how to tint their blue sky color by adding white. They are learning the basic shapes of local trees and created a tree based on either a round/oval, cone, pyramid, funnel, or spreading shape. Next they will learn several painting and texture techniques to create their trees.

Art Club Mini Assembly: Blurred Realities

Composit Photography by Advanced Photo Students