arts showcase

dance music theater visual art

spring 2020

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The Arts in the Rising Tide curriculum represent a wide array of opportunities for students to further develop their communication skills and gain exposure to the many ways artists use various tools, techniques, and concepts to observe and creatively respond to life.

dance

dance: upper school

ensemble: warm up

dance foundation: hand dance

conga

contemporary: dancing in small spaces

psa: sunscreen

psa: health care workers

psa: get outside

psa: sports

music

music: grade eight

theme music compositions

Students worked on a culminating composition project, applying their understanding of tempo, rhythms, pitches, and chords to creating a piece of music consisting of two contrasting sections; sad and happy, like two chapters in a story.

Nora Quill – the fair

Gerard Sytangco – sailor’s voyage

Thatcher Kirkpatrick – cheese grinder

Sydney Faranetta – A Case of the Mondays

Summer Nickerson – Goodbye for a While, A New Day

Owen Kelly – Triumph After Tragedy

Harmonie Olson – Monday Morning, Weekends

theater

theater: upper school playmaking

public service announcement project

Students were asked to select, research, and write scripts regarding a social issue which interested them. Afterward, students used scripts and research to stage, act, film, and edit short Public Service Announcement videos to help spread awareness about their selected topic.

Students demonstrated the skills of: self-reflection, research, playwriting, collaboration, use of audio/visual technology. 

theater: grade six

student monologues

In Theater, a monologue is when one character speaks for an extended period of time. Grade six students were asked to choose a monologue to work on and then later perform. 

visual art

visual art: foundation

The primary focus in Visual Art Foundation since the school closure has been on the use of value to depict volumetric drawings of objects. The six divisions of light project explored the influence of light on objects and students were asked to use hatching and cross-hatching in order to build a value structure in their work. Stippling is another process by which a value structure can be completed that uses hundreds or thousands of strategically-placed dots.

visual art: painting from photography

Students in Painting From Photography have continued to explore the visual language of photography during the school closure, and the projects included here have focused on the use of depth-of-field, unusual perspectives from which to view their subject matter, and color harmony strategies to help them organize a color palette in their work.

visual art: printmaking

Visual Art: Printmaking transitioned into a drawing-only class due to the school closure but we continued to explore print-inspired work. The following selection of work is broken into four studio projects.

How Do You Feel? Project
Students were asked to work in a “relief-block print” style in an attempt to communicate how they felt a few weeks into the school closure.
 
“Etching” Project
Students made a drawing inspired by the etchings of Rembrandt van Rijn and embraced an “etching” approach to their work, which relied on hatched and cross-hatched lines to complete the drawing structure and value structure of the drawing.
 
Tronie Project
Tronies are portraits that embrace an exaggerated facial expression and emotion and were typical of work produced during the 16th and 17th century, mainly in Dutch and Flemish artwork.
 
Frottage Project
Max Ernst, the French surrealist artist, invented the process of frottage or rubbing as a technique in art production in 1925. Students used the process of rubbing, wherein they laid paper over a textured surface and rubbed with graphite, as the primary process of producing their drawing.

visual art: grade seven

linear perspective drawing

Grade Seven students spent time learning and practicing Linear Perspective Drawing. Invented in the early 1400’s by the Italian Architect Filippo Brunelleschi, Linear Perspective quickly grew to become a widely used technique for representing realistic spatial depth in 2-D work by artists across cultures and throughout the world.

visual art: grade seven

drawing on location

Grade Seven students spent time using their observational skills to compose landscape drawings of local areas from their lives. Students applied the concepts of Linear Perspective, Value, Texture and Pattern to their work while continuing to practice drawing strategies based on observing and accurately depicting the Location, Scale and Form of various subject matter.

visual art: grade seven

portraiture studies

This term, Grade Seven students spent time exploring the subject of portraiture. Working from the portraits of Yousuf Karsh, students applied their ever-growing observational drawing skills to studies of the human form.

arts team

Susan Connelly
Upper School Dance

Ryann Greenberg
Middle School Dance and Theater

Brian Magna
Upper School Music

Brad Nelson
Upper School Visual Art

Barnet Senegal
Upper School Theater

Winston Wang
Middle School Music

Timothy Walker
Middle School Visual Art