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.

Bella Gormley ’23 hand sawed brass metal into a pattern of her choosing and then added color to the spaces using colored epoxy. Kyndall Brown ’22 hand sawed Plexi and brass metal to make a key chain.

Victoria Patton ’22 hand sawed an image from “Alice in Wonderland.”

Upper School Art: Other Rooms, Other Methods

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.

Elise Kait ’21 created a photomontage called “The Art of Walking: My World Reimagined.” ABOVE: “Art and Philosophy: Play the Cards You are Dealt, Realist vs. Idealist,” by Shania Mundy ’22

LEFT: Gabbi Reiser ’24 created a collage titled “The Art in Reading: Poetics of Vision.”

Lower School Explores Various Art Forms

This fall, our Pre-Kindergarten gained an understanding of how emotions play into artmaking as they created abstract paintings based on feelings using different types of line and color. Grade 1 was introduced to the theory of color. Students mixed primary colors to create secondary colors. Essentially, students explored the interaction between colors as well as learned to understand the layout and order of colors on the color wheel. Grade 2 students explored the life and artwork of Henri Matisse through animated stories before learning to better understand the media of collage. They used geometric and organic shapes, positive and negative space and repetition to create artwork. Grade 3 students learned about Alberto Giacometti and created Giacometti figure drawings with glue. They also used kitchen foil to create a sculpture inspired by Giacometti’s bronze figures. Along with other materials, they turned flat, delicate kitchen foil into sculptures of people, inspired by the textured figures that Giacometti created. Grade 4 created a booklet project illustrating art elements such as line, color, shape, space and value. Each student chose a symbol, letter, object or silhouette to interpret and illustrate examples of these elements on each page.

MS Students Collaborate on a Community Hive

Art students in Middle School were prompted to reflect on the people they are grateful for in their community and the roles that help their communities thrive. Each student designed a hexagon cell to pay tribute to a person or role. Each hexagon came together and was displayed in a large class-wide collaborative honeycomb. In the way that honeybees all work together to create their thriving honeycomb, the students’ collaborative honeycomb display represented all the people in the community who are valued and respected.

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOW

Daria Scharf ’25 gave us a glimpse into a day in her life during quarantine. After being separated all spring, Baldwin’s Middle School students returned in the fall to create their first art project, a dimensional self-portrait. Students first used Google slides to design a scene from inside or outside their houses to reflect their solitary time under quarantine. Students recreated these designs as a three-dimensional scene that is revealed through a window frame. Their scenes served as a symbolic representation of a day in their lives.