comingUp • Fourth-Grade Play, January 20 at 8:30 a.m. in the Black Box Theatre • Second-Grade Play, February 24 at 8:30 a.m. in the Black Box Theatre
• Arsenic and Old Lace, February 16-18 at 7:00 p.m. on the Main Stage: Students from the Middle and Upper Schools will be presenting Joseph Kesselring's classic comedy about two sweet old ladies and their pension for poison.
VisualArts thisFall • "Snapshots, A Collection of Photography" by Jaclyn Smith '04, Alan Briceland, Parke Smith '01, and Cindy Grissom, August 29-September 29: This collection was featured in the new Upper School gallery space and offered a glimpse into the diverse talent of these four individuals. • "Whirled" Peace Day, September 21: Lower, Middle, and Upper School art students created pinwheels for peace and "planted" them during a
ceremony promoting world peace. More than 900 schools around the nation partiCipated in this event. • Rick Bragga Photography Exhibit, September-October (Cosby Hall Gallery): The images in this exhibition were shot during the past five years in the United States and Canada. Bragga describes his work as presenting nature in "an infinite variety of shapes, textures, colors, and patterns that vary by time of day, month, or season of the year and types of weather and light."
comingUp • "Metaphor for Life," by Sonja Stoecki, November 21December 22: Cramer Center Gallery. Open Gallery November 30, 3-6 p.m. • "Domestic Partners, n by Adele Castillo, January 4-February 9, 2006: Cramer Center Gallery. Open Gallery January 11, 3-6 p.m. and January 25, 3-6 p.m. • Student Honors Photography Show, by students of John Alley, February 1S-March 22, 2006: Cramer Center Gallery. Reception
Fifth-graders perform The Legend of Anne Bonny.
February 23, 3:30-7 p.m.; Open Gallery, March 1, 3-6 p.m. • Senior project photography show, Whitney Frost and M'lissa Levitt, March 22-March 29, 2006: Cramer Center Gallery. • "A Celebration of Art," by Lower School students, April 3-May 16, 2006: Cramer Center Gallery. Reception, April 2.
For the month of October, Steward was honored to welcome i pai nter Ed Trask to campus. A graduate of VCU, Trask has painted over 30 murals in Richmond and all over the world. His ork has been shown at local and Museum Frame . His art has also been featured in galleries, including Eric Shindler Gallery, 1708, Artspace, and magazines such as Juxtapose, Giant Robot, Stop Smiling, Style Weekly, Richmond Magazine, and 64. He has taught for t he summer discovery program at VCU for 2 years and has opened the EGG SPACE, a gallery for underg round artists to show all media of work. In his time here, Trask painted two murals for The Steward School. Students in The Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools were afforded the invaluable experience of learning techniq ue, perspective, and method directly from Trask by partiCipating in the mural creation process from start to finish . Steward's e-nouncements previously printed this quotation from Trask: "I paint a symbolic portrait of themes dealing wit h preservation, spirituality, our social condition, morality, and loss of civility in a consumer-driven age. I choose imagery that sparks the imagination . . . [so the viewers] can oome to their own conclusions of where they themselves stand." His Show, "The Stories We Could Tell," was on display in the art gallery from October 5 to
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