The Visual Arts at Germantown Academy: Painting and Drawing

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.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

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.

Monday, November 30, 2015

US Students Participate in PAFA Workshop

GA students join together with Phila. area High School students in Printmaking Workshop at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

On Saturday, November 21st, a group of devoted GA art students were invited to participate with other creative individuals from the region in a High School Printmaking Workshop at PAFA. Mr.Love organized this event in collaboration with Prints Link Philadelphia. GA students participating included- Carter Seegev, Sabrina Tran, Shannon Hill, Julia, McKernan, Asya Shane-Milton and Elizabeth Wescott. These students joined forces with students from Abington Senior High School, Esperanza Academy and Abington Friends School for a day of drawing in the Historic Cast room, studio tours and printmaking explorations. "PAFA is the oldest art school in the country and the chance to have our students work in the same rooms where Thomas Eakins taught is pretty incredible. But besides working in some awe-inspiring spaces, the students were also able to create work alongside other area high school students and hear about art school life. It really was an amazing day and I was so happy that we could make it happen. The PAFA team was great and we are already beginning to plan next year’s event."

(Founded in 2009, PLP is a coalition of arts organizations who develop projects and curriculum to educate and support printmaking to children and teens in the Phila. area