Upper School visual arts teacher Jeffrey Baykal-Rollins has been working on a series of works called "The Word." Click below to learn about this project that is meant to conjure "metaphors of preservation, repair, restoration, and healing."
Visual Arts
As students progress in the visual arts program, they learn to engage in "creative discourse," with an active vocabulary and understanding of how to make art, critique it, and write about it.
Visual Arts News
With Halloween fast approaching, Upper School Visual Arts teacher Jeffery Baykal-Rollins wanted to creatively combine the spooky season and students' photography skills. The result: a graveyard photoshoot.
Visual Arts students went to Burying Hill Beach this fall to create works of art in tribute to Andrew Goldsworthy. According to Visual Arts Chair Lisa Waldstein, Goldsworthy "arrives at a space to create art with no materials other than what he finds there."
Upper School art students shared their admiration for nature-inspired artist Andy Goldsworthy — in physical and video form!
CREATIVITY IN ACTION
Our young artists fill the halls with their work, and spread their talents into the world by way of competitions, productions, and exhibitions. Faculty, who are both educators and artists, open the doors for exploration, imagination, and skill-building.
A Partnership with The Memory Project
Goldsworthy Tribute
Student Filmmakers
Every year, the Visual Arts Department run GFAN, a curated film screening of student work from Intro, Intermediate and Advanced Video courses.