The Visual Arts at Germantown Academy

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.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

In The Gallery...Our Beautiful Minds

Our Beautiful Minds
is an evolving art exhibition that is also a project
work space. During the course of the next four months, the arts faculty and their students across the school will create a visual map of how artists think, the connections we make, and our curricular endeavors at the Academy.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Experimental Variations in Silk Screen Printing

Advanced painting and drawing students have been hard at work exploring printmaking techniques. The most recent of which gave students the opportunity to embrace chance occurrences in the process to take works in new dynamic directions.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Sculptural Birdhouses

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Web 2.0 Tool Makes Online Portfolios A Breeze!

Upper school art students are about to get a big helping hand on constructing their online art portfolios in the form of Carbonmade a free site made by designers frustrated at the expense and complexity of creating online portfolios. Easy to use it is becoming the go to source for students developing portfolios.

Songwriting Students Give Online Access to Their Music

Dainis Roman and Jim Wade along with their songwriting students have moved their wares to the web by creating a site for this years music releases. You can also scan to download by using a scan APP on your Smart phone. Students will have QR codes strategically positioned in the House lounges for the next two weeks. You can also scan the code to your right directly from this screen.