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