We Spark Creativity
Independent schools champion the natural creativity in every child, growing creative problem solvers and nurturing artistic skills.
Independent schools champion the natural creativity in every child, growing creative problem solvers and nurturing artistic skills.
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The Hero’s Journey – Classroom to Art Studio to Zoo
A graceful Pegasus with flowing mane stands next to Medusa’s serpent mane. Beyond them, a red-eyed Harpy hovers above a proud Centaur. The mythological zoo is ready for visitors. These fantastical creatures are the product of two months of work by sixth graders at Shorecrest. In its third year, the project integrates art, English, science, […]
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Would Working With Wood Change your Working?
Though the Tuxedo Park School Art Program has always incorporated a wide variety of materials, with the expansion of our tools and materials Mrs. Sweeney is taking the students’ knowledge of and experience with wood to new heights. In Upper School, students work together to build a bench out of reclaimed pallet wood. In Middle […]
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Inspiring others to love and appreciate our beautiful world!
Liz, Class of 2015 at St. Paul’s School for Girls, was challenged by her English teacher, Michelle Stoll, to write a poem celebrating our beautiful Earth. Liz wrote a lovely poem, which was then submitted to the Department of Natural Resources poetry contest for the 2013-2014 year. She captured the prize last spring as the […]
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Dance Concert Lands on a Visceral Level
This year’s annual Rowland Hall dance concert titled, “Ground,” featured 87 Rowland Hall students, ages 11 to 18, and dance forms ranging from ballet to modern to hip-hop. The evening began with a high-speed chase throughout the theatre and culminated in an intimate reflection on dancers’ experiences of joy, sadness, and anger. This performance engaged […]
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Interactive Data Art Session Inspires Connection
Last week we kicked off the third trimester of the school year in Arts and Innovation with a Data Art exploratory session for our Middle School students. Scott Draves Beamed in from his home base of New York and delivered an amazing interactive workshop. Scott is a pioneering software artist best known for creating the […]
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Milton Hershey School: The Art of Happiness
Visual and Performing Arts students at Milton Hershey School were challenged to create art designs depicting happiness with partner Hershey Company’s candy products. The art is now displayed in Target’s headquarters. The VPA Department offers your child a wide variety of sequential classes, activities and performing groups in all of the arts. The department offers […]
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Throwing A Little Light On To The Subject
At Applewild School, our community of learners and doers are educated as twenty-first century learners and thinkers are fully engaged and ready to make a difference in their communities and their world. All students learn to craft in our two woodworking shops. Each Spring will find fourth graders busily building, painting, and learning about electric […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Patterns in a Romero Britto
Third graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their “math goggles” and engaged in an exploration of pattern using the visual arts as a lens. Students learned about the present-day, internationally renowned Brazilian pop artist, Romero Britto, who uses vibrant colors and bold patterns as a visual language of his hope, happiness, and optimistic […]
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Students Imagine, Design, and Build With STEAM Fest
Trinity Episcopal School recently had its first school-wide STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) celebration where students constructed “fun machines” out of recycled materials using an iterative design cycle. Students worked in cross-divisional groups (kinder with 8th graders, 4th with 5th, etc.) to construct a “fun machine”; an invention that people could enjoy by playing […]
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Milton Hershey School Students Skype with Author
A group of elementary students had the opportunity to Skype with children’s illustrator/author Aaron Becker. It was a wonderful time for students to interact with someone they admire. It also was a great lesson on how to incorporate technology into their school work. At MHS, every student’s learning experience is enhanced through the use of […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Math in a Paul Klee
Third graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a number and geometry exploration using the visual arts as a lens. Students learned about the Swiss-German painter, Paul Klee (1879-1940), and used his “Marjamshausen” (1928) as a springboard to exploring a variety of mathematics. Using pattern blocks, markers, and […]
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Fourth Grade Students Invade GSB Lower School with Art
Gill St. Bernard’s students, grades pre-k through three, returned to the Lower School early one morning to discover that an overnight invasion had taken place throughout the hallways and in their classrooms. Little did they know that the alien invaders they encountered had been brought down to Earth by fourth grade students at GSB. In […]