David Love Presents at PAEA Conference

Upper school painting and drawing teacher and Barness Chair, David Love, along with his partners at Prinks Link Philadelphia  presented a workshop entitled "Printmaking Slam-Beyond the Singular "  at the Pennsylvania Art Educators Annual Conference last month.   It exposed PA Art Educators to diverse printmaking processes and encouraged a rich sense of exploration and collaboration. he is seen left with Wendy Osterweil (former MS Art Department Chair and the recipient of The PAEA College Edfucator of the Year Award for her work at Ttyler School of Art) and Diane Wilkin, current president of PAEA.

GA Alum Spotlights GA Faculty in Women in Art Post at Penn

University of Pennsylvania's Women in Art Initiative featured an interview with US art teacher Gabrielle Russomagno. Written by GA Alum Helen Berhanu the post titled "Being Relentless" describes some of the complexities of working as a woman in art fields.  Read the interview here.

GA at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

FringeArts is Philadelphia’s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that stretches the imagination and boldly defies expectation exposing audiences to unpredictable art and performances by accomplished and emerging innovators who are pushing the boundaries of art-making and redefining the artistic landscape worldwide. The Fringe Festival,  fills the city’s neighborhoods with art as a catalyst for cultural and community development, and a destination that brings artists and audiences together.

TangenT founded by photography teacher Gabrielle Russomagno and her art collaborators Yvonne Love, and  William Cromar, have a suite of digital art shorts in the Fringe Festival.  RedAct is a multifaceted art event incorporating elements of performance, video, installation, and digital art throughout multiple locations in space, including cyberspace.  You can see the piece in its entirety by clicking here. 

David Love Awarded Art Educator Award

Earlier this summer Dave Love, Painting, Drawing and Printmaking teacher was awarded the covet-able Pennsylvania Art Educator of the Year Award given by the Pennsylvania Art Education Association, for his work in schools, in supporting arts programming in the region, and for his legacy of academic work that includes national and regional lectures on evolving art education. Recently named the Herbert and Irma Barness Chair for the Arts here at GA, Love is making something of a name for himself in art education circles as a highly innovative teacher whose interests in the fine arts are matched by his interest in art for community service and integrating art teaching with other academic disciplines. He is one of the founders of S.T.E.A.M.education here at GA, a program where faculty from maths, science, art, and music design course work for students that integrate science, technology, engineering, and arts, and mathematics.  The first STEAM Studio course launches in the spring term.

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."

David Love "Musings and Meanderings"

 

Musings and Meanderings the new exhibition in the Art center Gallery by painting, printmaking, and drawing teacher David Love features a collection of mixed media prints and drawings that are among other things an investigation of form, the interaction of color, and deeply personal symbolism.  These small and large scale art works are at turns playful and dire, simple and complex. A master draftsman, Love has chosen a decidedly object and form oriented drawing style for this newest work, one that conjures allusions to graphic novels, pre-historic art, and late 20th century modernism.  The final installation in the exhibition is a collection of his drawings that span nearly a half century and give excellent context for this recent work and Love's development as an artist. On view in the gallery through March 21st.  A reception for the artist is scheuleded on March 9 from 3-5 pm.

Dave Love Hosts Print Making Workshop for Area Educators

Dave Love is a a founding member of PLP-Prints Link Philadelphia, a group dedicated to nurturing the art of printmaking in young people. The members come from all over the region and provide an interesting cross section of educational institutions- private, charter and public schools and  diverse  ages from K-12. Love is Coordinating of  Professional Development charged with discovering educational opportunities for member teachers and sponsoring workshops to expose the members to new techniques and processes. These workshops are not only beneficial for teachers in that they expand their curricular options, but also keeps the teachers involved in the act of making art. The most recent PLP worksop was held here at GA. An upcoming exhibit at Tyler School of Art in March, features work from all the member institutions and teachers. Love reports "PLP has always made exhibiting part of its mission – and its just one of the reasons why  I love working with the group."

Curriculum Reimagined: Dave Love Presents at The Pennsylvania Art Educators Association

On October 19, painting and drawing teacher Dave Love presented a lecture at the Pennsylvania Art Educators Association. This year the conference theme was Forging A Strong Future: Reflect, Refine and Reignite Conference. Love's presentation was titled "Curriculum Re-imagined: Nurturing a Better Balance Between Skills and Content". While Love has a passion for teaching and making art and works actively to share that with teachers from across the region, he also reports that he is equally gratified by sharing the work of his GA students since "the work by GA students, always blows my colleagues away. They are continually impressed by their impressive  technical abilities and conceptual understanding."

Romy Burkus to Show at Allentown Art Museum

 An evening of collecting at the Allentown Art Museum will feature the encaustic painting of GA Middle school art teacher, Romy Burkus.  The event is a fundraiser for the museum as well as an art exhibition/sale. Burkus is represented by the Philadelphia Gallery, B Square Gallery which support the event scheduled for November 9 from 6-9 pm.