Visual Arts

Through their active participation in a wide range of art experiences the students develop their knowledge, skills, creativity and confidence. Although concepts and activities are often introduced in a group setting, the teachers of the Visual Arts Department strive to provide individualized instruction and support. The curriculum provides students with the skills needed to create art and helps to develop their aesthetic sense and an understanding of the historical context of art.

Museum trips, slides, films, field trips, and visiting artists are utilized to enrich the curriculum. By prominently displaying students’ art throughout the school, through art exhibitions, and by involvement in school publications, students share their work with the school community.

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Middle School students take Visual Arts twice a cycle for the entire year. This allows them to explore a variety of media and techniques, to engage in long and short-term projects and to see their work develop over the year. Students explore techniques such as painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, fabric arts and puppetry. By studying composition, line, color, shape and form students learn to communicate their ideas visually. Activities at each grade level become increasingly more advanced and challenging, as do the media and techniques introduced.

The Upper School curriculum provides a program of electives that helps students to develop basic skills and provides opportunities for in-depth exploration of particular areas of art. The curriculum places art in a cultural context and encourages students to visit art museums and galleries to experience art first-hand. Films, slides, discussions, and assigned readings supplement class instruction and help students evaluate their work and the art of others.

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Visual Arts News

  • The 4th Grade Views, Learns From, and Departs From "The Dinner Party"

    Posted 5.9.08

    The 4th grade traveled to the Brooklyn Museum recently to study Judy Chicago's show, The Dinner Party. Click on "read more" to find out what they learned.

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  • Artists Visting Artists

    Posted 5.1.08

    Berkeley Carroll's Artist to Artist initiative enables students to work directly with professional artists--here at school as well as in the artists' studios. On April 30, 2008, six Upper School students worked with master printer Marina Ancona and visiting artist Leslie Kerb at 10 Grand Press, the print studio. Click on "read more" to see the photos.

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  • Film: 10 Years Out--and The Interschool Student Film Festival

    Posted 4.25.08

    Congratulations to the participants, members of the professional panel, and to the student and faculty who worked around the clock putting together Berkeley Carroll's first interschool student film festival held April 24, 2008. Click on "read more" to find out about this event.

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  • Upper School Artists Win National Recognition

    Posted 2.22.08

    Twelve Gold or Silver Keys--a record number--were awarded to Berkeley Carroll Upper School art students by by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. For details, click "read more."

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  • Berkeley Carroll's Arts Program in the News

    Posted 1.25.08

    An article appears in the current issue Independent School Magazine, written by David Egolf, visual arts chair for kindergarten - 12th grade. The article, available by clicking here, showcases Berkeley Carroll's arts program. Independent School Magazine, published by the National Association of Independent Schools, is read by over 36,000 people, per issue, at independent schools all over the world.

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