Senior Spotlight: J Zettlemoyer

Going wherever the wind takes me, The Temper Trap

My parents’ support, European Languages

My brother’s dependability, The freedom of individuality

My friends’ optimism, Cooking, then eating

Solving puzzles, Not knowing where the wind will take me

Senior Spotlight: C Mezey

 

The Ten

Avocado toast, Turtlenecks, Razor scooters, 

Long car rides, Terry Gross, 

Jhumpa Lahiri's books, George Ezra

Running outside, Horizontal stripes, Travel

Senior Metalsmiths Busily Trying to Finish Their Designs Before They Wrap the Year

Senior Spotlight: Z Burkhart

The Ten

Friends
Mt. Dew
Rowing
Nature
Lifting
Music
Values
Eating
Sleeping
Pausing

Senior Spotlight: O Rosato

Grilled cheese, Family, Stone harbor

Cotton candy, Clueless 

Playing with my neighbor, Scrabble

Drawing, Radio 104.5, Dancing  

GA Students Exhibit at Tyler School of Arts

GA Upper School students participate in group printmaking show at Tyler.

From March 31st through April 19th, 2015, close to 40 Upper School students from GA will be participating in group printmaking exhibit at Tyler School of Art. The show entitled, "Prints for All Ages" showcases a diverse range of printmaking processes from members of Prints Link Philadelphia, of which GA is a part of. PLP ( founded in 2009) is a coalition of community arts organizations, art centers, museums, schools and teaching artists who develop curriculum and projects to educate and promote printmaking to children and teens in the Philadelphia region." http://www.printslinkphila.com/  

Mr. Love says, "the GA work  comes from all of my  drawing and painting classes at GA-from 2D Foundations all the way through Advanced Drawing/Painting III. Ms. Katrina Rakowski, student teacher from Tyler, also directed a number of the print projects. The work is very strong and has gotten a great response."

Other schools participating include- Abington Friends School, Esperanza Academy Charter School, Ellwood Elementary and Girard College ( elementary ).

Tyler will be hosting public reception, complete with studio tours, on Sunday, April 19th from 2-4 pm. 

Senior Spotlight: O Gorman

The Ten

Art 
Sports
Animals
Fam-squad
Shoes
Scandal 
Gym

a special finger 
Corn
Duck-tape​

5th Grade Linoleum Block Prints and Character Busts

In January the 5th Graders studied the artwork of American painter, John Marin. The students chose

a famous piece of architecture or a monument, from Germantown Academy’s Campus, to use as

their subject. We spoke about positive and negative space in relation to printmaking and to art in general. The students’ drawings were transferred to Linoleum blocks, which were then carved and inked for printing.

Finishing Clay Character Busts- The 5th graders were thrilled to paint and finish their clay character busts in February. They used watercolor and a bit of acrylic paint for their final touches. The busts were then sprayed with a protective clear coating. Please come and see them

Senior Spotlight: J Berman

The Ten

Family Dinners

Flowers

Sunny Beach Days

Magazines

Pink

Babies

Candles,

Turtlenecks

Hot Tea

Longport

Artist in Residence: GA Alum Clay Kippen Works with Senior Honors Students

Senior Spotlight: K Hermance

The Ten

Beach
Running
Eggs Benedict
Anthropologie
Gossip girl
Art
Sky blue 

Golfing
Positivity
Warm weather

Senior Honors Project on Tumblr

Upper School Honors Art Seniors are in the midst of a three week intensive art project guided by GA Alum and professional designer, Clay Kippen. He has been working with our students here on campus, through online support, and through media conferencing to help seniors develop new insight into their creativity and art making in general.  Emphasizing design thinking processes, collaboration, and play, students are making art in response to one prompt per day through the month of April.

You can follow their progress online by clicking here. 

2nd Grade Clay Dinosaurs Ready to be Painted!

1st Grade Arts

Invented City Scapes

First grade artists learned how buildings can have different types of windows, doors, domes, and roofs. They each designed one building stamp by drawing into Scratch Foam and enjoyed sharing their stamps to create their own printed, invented cityscapes.

Clay Owls

After reading Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, 1st grade artists made clay pinch pots, attached slabs of

clay and used tools to add texture to create their own owls.

Laurel Burch Inspired Cats

Artist Laurel Burch is well known for her abstract cats. First graders learned how to draw a cat in the style of this artist and used the sgraffito technique by scratching the back of a paintbrush to make

designs in the wet paint

David Love Presents At The National Art Education Association Conference in New Orleans

Painting and Drawing teacher David Love, spent the spring break in sunny New Orleans as a featured speaker at the annual National Art Education Association National Convention.

The theme for this year's conference was "The Art of Design: Form, Function, and the Future of Visual Arts Education",  a topic relevant to GA today. His presentation entitled 

"Enhancing Observational Drawing Through Analysis, Design, and Invention" explored  simple, step-by-step analytical strategies designed to enhance observational drawing studies and simultaneously nurture student’s inventive abilities and overall visual confidence. "I am happy to say, the presentation went really well, " reports Love. "The conference is huge ( over 5,000 art educators) and there are literally hundreds of presentations. I was really happy ( and more than a bit relieved)  that my presentation drew in a large crowd on an early  Saturday morning, in New Orleans, aka, party capital of the world.  I was definitely aided by the strength of the GA student work, which was featured prominently. The audience was clearly impressed  by the work."  Besides presenting Mr. Love also attended a number of excellent presentations  that touched upon a range of topics he has been exploring including-design thinking, contemporary painting, community activism and art education in the private school environment. "Overall it was a really amazing experience and it opened up my eyes to new ways of taking about and teaching art –and New Orleans is a pretty amazing place. I find these  conferences incredibly inspiring, so I hope to continue attending these events well into the future."

Senior Spotlight: X Wang

Amy, Buddy, David, and Abu J

 My lovely, beautiful, amazing friends!

Social media, which I spend too much time on.

Art, of course (+ DLove)!

The Classics.

Reading, writing, or anything with word

My naughty dogs

Blue cheese crumbles. Yum. Pentatonix, Video games!!!

4th grade Autumn Leaf Compositions

-->  Students spent a beautiful fall day collecting leaves and then arranging them to create compositions in art class.  Inspired by the event, the students wrote verse in their homerooms to reflect on their experience.  The leaf compositions were photographed, printed, and compiled for display.  These compositions were also used to create cyanotype prints on fabric.  The individual fabric squares will be sewn together to create a quilt, for auction in the Germantown Academy Parents’ Fundraiser