(Right) Megan Sweeney (SHS ’24) poses with her finished calavera (skull) pot for the Lower & Middle Schools Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on November 5. Students in grades first through eighth were immersed in the Mexican custom in their art, music, drama, and world language classes. Prior to the celebration, Lower School students were visited by prolific Bay Area artist Victor Mario Zaballa, who spoke about and gave a demonstration in papel picado—a Mexican folk art in which paper is cut into elaborate designs .
(Left) Employing art as a means to convey a lesson in social science, PSK teachers and parent volunteers led students in making “peace sign” necklaces out of yarn and colorful beads, as part of the school’s United Nations/World Peace Day activities. To read more about the PSK UN Day celebration, please see the article on p. 4.
(Right) Getting in on the fun, parents join their children in a primary color painting project as part of the first grade’s annual “Art Informance” on February 11. Parents spent the afternoon discovering what their students have learned and produced in their fine arts sections: drama, music, and visual.
(Left) SHP AP Photography and AP Studio Art students enjoyed a field trip to the de Young Museum for the “Keith Haring: The Political Line” exhibit on January 28. (Pictured) Sarah Spreng (SHP ’16) and her classmates responded to Haring’s bold and vivid graphics by recreating their own in journals while at the museum. The de Young visit was one of two excursions taken by the advanced art students this year, the other a trip to Stanford University’s Cantor Art Center to see the “Robert Frank in America” exhibit.
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