Ten of our oldest students visited James Pass Arboretum to observe and draw one of its majestic specimens. Tim Regin, longtime advocate for the arboretum, met with us sharing the history of the arboretum and its trees. Each student was assigned a different tree. In advance they had to research the tree determining if it Read More >>
Mithila Art from India
Many thanks to Shalinee Kumari for visiting the New School! Shalini is a Mithila-artist from India who was visiting SU for a residency. She came to The New School to share her amazing art form. Then she returned to help students create their own works based on the Mithila style. “Mithila is an ancient painting Read More >>
SUNY ESF Field Trip
In November a small group of our older students expressed an interest in visiting the Gateway Center at SUNY ESF to view some of the finest specimens of birds, mammals, freshwater and marine fishes, reptiles and amphibians in their Roosevelt WildLife Collection. For two hours they were granted access to a subset of this collection Read More >>
Art Rage
Students are creating work influenced by their visit to Artrage a while back. They were exposed to the artist Helen Zughaib who created paintings based off of family stories. Each of the students wrote a family story and then I started working with them on the illustration for the assignment. We have been experimenting and Read More >>
Freedom Bound Field Trip
The oldest students, who have been studying the Civil War and the Abolitionist movement, were treated to an end of the year field trip led by the amazing Vanessa Johnson. Vanessa Johnson is a gift teacher and storyteller, who brings history to life! The first part of our experience was to view the “object theater” Read More >>