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.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Senior Honors Students Thrift Shop Field Trip


Senior students in the honors program spent a morning at a local thrift shop looking for found objects and kitsch art for the Honors Collaboration Project on display in January in the Art Center Gallery.  Conflating high and low art along with the opportunity to interact with an already existing art work to make something new and original are the ideas students will struggle with in the coming months.  The fact that they will have increased practice at collaborating in teams and leading through influence, is a critical piece of the project, reinforcing 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, grit and leading through influence.
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