ARTS UPPER SCHOOL JEWELRY CLASS GETS CREATIVE
In jewelry class, students learn the foundational skills for making individually designed pieces of jewelry. The basics of metalsmithing (cutting metal with a saw and soldering with a heat torch) are emphasized. After mastering the basics, students go on to more complex, personalized work with different metals and materials.
Jenny Staple ’00 Holds Grade 6 Art Project Night The Baldwin School Parents’ Association sponsored a Grade 6 Art Project Night with alumna Jenny Staple ’00. As 29 sixth graders drew self-portraits in their blue blazers, Jenny told stories of her time at Baldwin and encouraged the students to lean into this school community.
Upper School Art: Other Rooms, Other Methods Kyndall Brown ’22 hand sawed Plexi and brass metal to make a key chain.
For the first time in perhaps ever, the Upper School Art classes are not being held in the beloved studios. But with displacement comes creativity, so the art classes are reinventing what an art class can be. Even some of our virtual learners set up home art studios to continue their creative classes.
ABOVE: “Art and Philosophy: Play the Cards You are Dealt, Realist vs. Idealist,” by Shania Mundy ’22 Bella Gormley ’23 hand sawed brass metal into a pattern of her choosing and then added color to the spaces using colored epoxy.
LEFT: Gabbi Reiser ’24 created a collage titled “The Art in Reading: Poetics of Vision.”
Victoria Patton ’22 hand sawed an image from “Alice in Wonderland.”
Elise Kait ’21 created a photomontage called “The Art of Walking: My World Reimagined.” Rhea Jain ’21 created a beautiful bracelet using hand sawed metal and colored epoxy.
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