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The Visual Arts Department Adapts to A New Way of Teaching and Learning

This is the first article of an ongoing series about how Eaglebrook teachers and students are adapting to a new Distance Learning model. 
 
The Eaglebrook faculty, in the face of the pandemic the world is experiencing needed to adapt to the unique challenges that a Distance Learning Program presented. It made meeting students where they are, a core tenet of Eaglebrook’s mission, more important than it ever has been. Many courses can be easily replicated online. The faculty in the visual arts department, however, needed to be extra creative when creating their lesson plans. Learn how the Eaglebrook art teachers adapted to the challenge of distance learning and a few of the recent projects students have completed. 

Stained Glass 

Students in Ms. Tabery’s Stained Glass class completed a project that introduced patterns in art. They used a website of artists based in the Netherlands and then were asked to build their own patterns using objects from around their homes. Through this project, students learned about regular v. irregular patterns. Regular patterns use the same shapes, lines, colors, spacing, and background in a predictable arrangement. Irregular patterns have variations of shape or line in terms of arranging color, size, spacing, and orientation.

Printmaking and Photo

Students in Mr. Russom’s printmaking and photo classes are completing a variety of observation drawings, and photo assignments. In Printmaking, students have done some drawing assignments. One assignment was to complete a drawing without overthinking called a “fancy doodle.”

Students in Mr. Russom’s Drawing and Painting class are focusing on drawing while thinking about the times we are all currently living in. The class completed a poignant toilet paper assignment.

In Mr. Russom’s photo class, students have started out with black and white images and looking at objects around the house and views from the window.

Department Wide Project 

In addition, all visual art classes participated in the Getty Museum Challenge, which challenged people across the world to recreate a famous work of art. The challenge was inspired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and people were tasked with browsing their collection of artwork then re-creating it using items from around their own homes. Mrs. Fay’s students rose to the challenge and you can find a submission to the right of the page. 
 
Please look for more in our series highlighting Distance Learning at Eaglebrook next week.
 
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