Studio Arts

LOWER SCHOOL

Our lower schoolers deeply investigated all the foundations of painting, sculpture, collage and printmaking this year. They explored fundamentals of color theory through a variety of different types of paint and problem solved their way through to completing beautiful (and very stable) sculptures made of clay, paper and found objects. Preschool was a new addition to the art studio this year and did an amazing job experimenting with materials and talking about the results of those explorations. We concluded the year using our kilns to create mixed media mobiles that included hand built and glazed clay pieces.

UPPER SCHOOL

Our upper schoolers learned and applied new artistic techniques to both 2-d and 3-d design materials. They began the year drawing themselves from observation, exploring how to navigate scale, shading, texture and proportion. Next, they transformed our studio into a printing press with their linoleum cuts. They each completed a multitude of prints that they bound into accordion books. Upper schoolers completed the year with large-scale sculptures made with found objects and plaster. The subject matter varied from food to animals to props for the 8th grade play, but the goal was the same for all: build a stable sculpture with a ton of painted detail and texture.