The Visual Arts at Germantown Academy: April 2013

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 24, 2013

The Graphic Novel in the Locker Gallery

Dr. Friedman writes of the current Locker Gallery Exhibition:

“In the spring of 2011, students in the “Graphic Novels” English elective spent the semester reading graphic novels, including Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, and Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese. At their final project, they were asked to choose one meaningful, inspirational, traumatic or memorable moment from their lives and illustrate it in the form of a brief chapter of a graphic novel – that is, narratives that tell a story through sequential art, a blend of words and pictures. In these panels excerpted from their work, you can see how students successfully employed the visual devices and strategies they learned about in our reading.

Participating students

“Day Dream” by Chris Harvey (‘12)
“Red, White, Blue … and Black” by Esther Min (‘12)
“The Dino Dig Kit” by Pratik Patel (‘12)
“Spilled Milk” by Chandra Patel (‘11)
“Fear” by Allie Zamarin (‘12)
“Pricked by the Thorn” by Adam Sjoholm (‘12)

Thursday, April 18, 2013

GA and Loomis Chaffe Print Exchange

An exhibit exploring the art of printmaking is on view in the Sculpture and Painting corridor of the Art Center. The exhibit features "printed" work from the GA Lower, Middle and Upper School, along with some of its faculty. A secondary exhibit features printed work from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT as part of print exchange with the GA Upper School.