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.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Framework for Creative Space


Sculpture students were asked to imagine the framework for their ideal creative space.  They visualized a place of creative thought where time and space allowed them to feel most at home a place where their imaginations were without boundaries. They sketched several iterations of the space and then created their structure out of balsa wood.  The structure was intentionally simply a “framework”. Then students were asked to think about the studio they work in at school and envision it as the place where their individual frameworks merge building a framework for individualism and collaboration.  The final version of the assignment involved combining the structures to create one collective creative framework that serves as a visual reminder that through collaboration and consideration creative possibilities are infinite.  The entire piece is on view through the end of October in The Roberts Library.



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