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.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Leonardo DaVinci, Flying Machines, and the classic Egg Drop Experiment

Students in Ms. Ritz's 2D3D Foundations class have spent the last weeks making DaVinci inspired Flying Machines to carry precious cargo, a raw egg, for it to sail off the roof of the academic courtyard and onto the middle school green. In an interesting twist on the classic egg drop experiment, these students' designed were meant to fly through the air protecting the egg from damage upon impact when hitting the ground.  How did they do?  Most of the little guys survived.











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