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.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Self Portrait Drawings




Upper school students in painting and drawing used color studies inspired by Soutine or Thibeaut to make self portraits. As a part of this phased work in self-portraiture, students also used monotypes investigate feelings of "otherness." Looking at the work of Berkley Hendricks and thinking about some of the ideas he was pondering (civil rights, women's rights, art history), students were asked whether there are still situations where one can be made to feel like they don't belong based on something they can not change.






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