The Visual Arts at Germantown Academy: April 2012

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, April 30, 2012

Oil Studies of Reflected Light

Painting students in Dave Love's Advanced class work on traditional still life oil paintings with an emphasis on interpreting and understanding reflected light.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Art for Human Rights at GA

GA students participated in a "chalk in" on April 18th and 19th to protest human rights violations around the globe. In addition to their graffiti chalk event, students created a Wall of Shame highlighting the twenty five most wanted human rights violators and a QR code project allowing students to scan QRs posted around campus to find out more information about individuals and organizations leading the fight to stop human rights abuse.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Senior Photo Students begin The Mural Project

Each year senior art students from each studio are spend their last month in school working on the mural project wall located in the arts corridor between the painting and sculpture studios. Below photography students begin their work framing the space in Myan symbols. The mural changes daily, so make sure to walk by it now and again to see this highly collaborative process unfold.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Foundations Student's Pixelated Self Portraits Inspired by Chuck CLose

Friday, April 6, 2012

Senior Spotlight: J. Lee

The Ten

Boyfriend, college, puppy, room interior design,

summer job, innovation, hot pink, six flags

Tokyo sushi roll, yoga

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Honeycomb Collaborative Sculpture

Students in the sculpture classes along with any student artists who visit the space and participating in a collaborative art installation using paper cups and powdered graphite. Growing and changing daily, walk through the art center studio corridor to see this amazing piece take shape.