Visual Arts

 

	The Middle School Art Program has a three-fold mission--to help students build an understanding of the visual arts, develop their artistic skills, and most importantly, provide them an atmosphere that encourages creativity and unleashes individual imagination. Students learn to express themselves using a wide variety of materials, tools, techniques and technologies.

6th Grade

 

	In this course, sixth graders explore various media as they address the fundamentals essential to both art and self-expression. They draw in pencil and ink, sculpt with clay and wire, and work with pastels and paint. Projects include keeping sketchbooks, sculpting African figures from clay, creating cut out collages inspired by the work of Henri Matisse, and making Calder-esque self portraits from wire.

7th Grade

 

	During this year, students work with perspective more intensively as they explore a wider variety of materials. They become more sensitive to the aesthetics of art and the importance of process as they apply what they learn to their own work. The course encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. Stimulated to develop their own individual styles, students work on projects inspired by a variety of artists and cultures. Art History plays a role as different periods are studied, introducing concepts like subject and symbolism.

8th Grade

 

	This course builds on previous experience as students further develop their skills. Self expression continues to be emphasized as such topics as color theory and perspective are explored in greater depth. Great artists from different time periods continue to be introduced as the inspiration for projects in drawing, painting, sculpture, design and more. Students explore new technologies in multi-media and video production.

World Beach Project Gallery

 

	The eighth grade at Greens Farms Academy recently spent a week participating in the “World Beach Project.”  This global project was the brainchild of artist Sue Lawty. Through the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she created a project that people throughout the world could participate in. The idea is to create as many designs or objects as possible out of stones and rocks on beaches around the world. The Eighth graders created their designs and used the rocks on Burying Hill Beach to realize them. We are posted on the World Beach Project website and can be easily found once at the site.  We are listed as Greens Farms Academy and the site where we created our work is Burying Hill Beach.