Visual Arts

This year, Visual Art students across all divisions explored the school-wide theme of Connection, weaving together personal stories and creative expressions in vibrant and thoughtful ways.

Across all levels, Visual Art served as a powerful space for students to connect—with their materials, their ideas, and each other. 

In the Lower School, the Fine Arts Evening served as a dynamic showcase of this theme. Fourth-grade artists explored identity and heritage through the "My Dish to Class Potluck," using culturally significant foods as a storytelling medium. Fifth graders reflected on memory, time, and materiality in "Memory Keeper Cups," a cross-disciplinary project that combines digital modeling in Technology class (via Tinkercad) with hand-built ceramic forms in Visual Art. A joyful collaboration between Kindergarteners and Middle Schoolers—Wild Things Grow Up—offered a heartfelt celebration of growth, transformation, and the beauty of life’s many stages.

In Middle School Visual Arts, students engaged deeply with the idea of connection by designing and building neighborhoods using collage, clay, tempera, and assemblage. Each student created a unique house that became part of an interconnected, visually compelling community. The Middle School E-lective program offered students the opportunity to explore media-specific workshops, ranging from glass and ceramics to felting, weaving, and painting, allowing for focused creative exploration.

• For the Love of Books, which expanded traditional book arts into the realm of functional sculpture;
• Creating Space with Outdoor Sculpture, where students welded site-specific metal sculptures at Pratt Fine Arts and installed them in a garden along Lake Washington Boulevard;
• Art in Motion: Interactive Art Installations, where students embraced emerging technologies to create immersive, responsive works of art.