Senior Spotlight: F Koons

The Ten

Netflix and Chill

Beach fam

Chelsea F.C.

Spotify

FIFA

Hoodies

Shameless

How I Met Your mother

Morning car ride jams

Mexican food

Senior Spotlight: Ace MacDonald

The Ten

Death of a Bachelor - Panic! At the Disco

Short Skirt Long Jacket - Cake

Never There - Cake

One Week - Barenaked Ladies

Bending Backwards - Arden Kind

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Smooth - Santana

Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time - Panic!

Kings of Summer - ayokay

The Same Boy You've Always Known - The White Stripes

In the Gallery: Upper School Painting and Drawing Honors Art Show

Senior Spotlight: D Niemynski

The Ten 

SoundCloud

Sleeping in

Hoodies

Old sitcoms

Need for Speed

Crosswords

Home cooked meals

YouTube

Piano

Words with friends

Self Portrait Drawings

Upper school students in painting and drawing used color studies inspired by Soutine or Thibeaut to make self portraits. As a part of this phased work in self-portraiture, students also used monotypes investigate feelings of "otherness." Looking at the work of Berkley Hendricks and thinking about some of the ideas he was pondering (civil rights, women's rights, art history), students were asked whether there are still situations where one can be made to feel like they don't belong based on something they can not change.

Kanye and Connor in the Scupture Studio

Kandinsky Art and Design Thinking

5^th grade students learned about Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.  Kandinsky connected music and emotion to painting and is considered by many the founder of abstract art.  Inspired by the classical music of Scriabin and Schoenberg, students created their own Kandinsky-like paintings.  Next, the 5th graders ventured outside to create a Kandinsky-inspired mural.   During the following class, students were tasked with a design challenge to help them make deeper connections to Kandisnky.   They were asked to work collaboratively to design and sketch a product or mechanism that would help Kandinsky at some point in his life.  Students connected their experiences to Kandinsky’s and they practiced empathetic inquiry.  Our current endeavor in the design process is creating digitally rendered 3D models of the concepts on iPads.  Using Autodesk’s 123D design App, students are transforming geometric shapes into the structure of their prototypes.  Final details and iterations occur within their development as students educate and evaluate each other throughout the innovation process. This kind of project based learning gives students an opportunity to make deeper connections to artists and processes.  It invites curiosity and creativity and encompasses the direction of 21^st century education by engaging students fully, while practicing the elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics or STEAM.