art

Guest post by Buzz Haverty ‘10
Beaver’s literary and art journal, the Heliconian, hosted its first Coffee House this month. Students, parents, alumni and faculty alike all gathered in the Rogers Room for a fun night of readings and musical performances.
The Coffee House is an ever-expanding tradition in Beaver’s great creative culture, bringing more students together [...]

This week, Beaver is pleased to host Alexander DeMaria as an artist in residence. Mr. DeMaria has spent the week meeting with classes, sharing his work and expertise with students, and preparing an exhibit in our Nancy Lincoln Gallery.
Prior to his arrival, art teacher Rebecca Roberts asked her 9th grade Art Principle class to look [...]

Limited physical space? Why not go online? That’s what photography teacher Meriah Burman will be doing with photographs from her digital photography courses.
There’s not enough space in Beaver’s Nancy Lincoln Art Gallery to display all of the fantastic photos that the students produced. So, in addition to select photos being hung in the gallery, a monitor [...]

9th grade students in Rebecca Roberts’ Principles of Art class each have their own art blog to record their thoughts about their activities in the class. Ms. Roberts posts entries to her own blog which provide instruction and examples for what students are to write on their blogs. All student blogs are linked to from [...]

Meriah Burman’s Intermediate Photography class has been experimenting with creating and using pinhole cameras. Here are some of the results. More pictures can be found in the Flickr photo gallery. All of Ms. Burman’s photography classes use an online community called the Beaver Country Day School Photography Ning to share their work with each other.
Taylor [...]