Varsity Art Team takes on MOMA and LIFE DRAWING

Members of the 'Varsity Art Team' hopped on a bus and subway to check out the Museum of Modern Art, including the DeKooning retrospective.  It was a beautiful day!

Varsity Art Team members have also been taking part in figure drawing at the Nyack Center.  Great work!

 An amazing group of Jazz Musicians led by our very own Rob Debellis treated students on Friday to a preview of their evening Head of School Series concert.  A few students gathered to record the event in their sketchbooks..

 

 

This great drawing was done by senior, Samantha Leung

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALICE IN WONDERLAND AT D-E

Queens transformed by couture!!!

'When I was approached to artistically assist with the fall play,...I thought of all of the deeply talented, passionately driven young artists in our midst.'   

gregg emery,chair,visual arts & art history

The costumes worn by the queens were designed & constructed by Anna Karpman, 12'  The graphics including poster & hand silkscreening of the cards was done by Hanna Lefcourt, 12'  The opening film was designed, shot and edited by Gordon Marquardt, 12'

Notably, the seventh grade was called upon to design and contruct hats for the famous Tea Party that you will see in a later post.

Anna Karpman, 12' with her queens at a late night photo shoot in Swartley after the dress rehearsal.

The line work, patterns, graphics and overall design for the posters and media for the show was left to Hanna Lefcourt, 12' way to go Hanna!  Designing and hand silkscreening each of the card guards as well!!!!

Hanna hard at work silkscreening her original designs.

Gordon Marquardt, 12' stepped in at the last minute to come up with the amazing intro to the show.  His video, shot on location with our very own Alice helped bring the audience from their reality to the wonderful, quirky and surreal world we all enjoyed this past weekend,...

 

Congrats to all of the performers, directors, artists, crew members, stage hands, painters, ushers, parents, 4th graders, 7th graders and high school students, from the smallest role to the largest...thank-you and congratulations to all for an adventure worth reliving again and again!!!!

Faculty & Staff Exhibit in Swartley a great success!!!

Click above to enjoy a virtual walk through of the gallery exhibit...

Artwork by our very own Upper School Arts Instructor, Marisol Diaz

A hand crafted Bear and clothing by a Dwight-Englewood science teacher, Tara Weinstein

 

Students and Faculty enjoyed a lunch time art opening reception to celebrate the first exhibition of the season....

Stay tuned for more great work from Swartley gallery, the next show is already up, featuring work by Lorena Estrella 06'

7th grade draws waterfalls, palisades on the Clearwater trip, Lower School drawing the Trees...

After a brief walk up the paths along the Hudson River, students selected

 spots around a waterfall...

Each D-E artist was asked to mediate/ reflect with their pencil and paper on a section of the landscape.

Chris couldn't get enough of the landscape, river, and friendship with his fellow artists...

Back home at D-E, our Lower School students are busy capturing the local landscape.

Great locations abound in front of Swartley Arts Center!

Beautiful trees and landscaping are the products of tender loving care by our amazing grounds crew...

What amazing work in the waning days of summer, time to head back in the studios to continue creating!

Opening Assembly features the Visual Arts & Art History

A short clip of String Society ensemble players at the opening of school assembly, with a memorable 
performance of Kurt Jenkins' "Palladium," and a visually striking backdrop of work created throughout the
2010-2011 school year.  Featured in this clip are Olivia Fuld 17' and the applause is given for Anna Karpman 12.'

Serena Solin, 12' read an original story she wrote which was...

inspired by her studies in Art History, specifically the Caves of Lascaux...

 

The morning featured so many memorable performances and works of art.  The picture here shows 8th graders on a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,...taking in a Pollock in the Modern Wing.

 

 

 

Swartley Remembers September...10 years ago

These envelopes were all created by students and faculty in response to 9/11.

 

 

I was teaching an art history class that morning and didn't really believe the 'boys' as they told the class about planes hitting the towers.  I began class as one of my students left for the bathroom.  When word came that the unbelievable was in fact reality, it suddenly became clear that the student who left for the bathroom was calling her father who worked high atop one of the towers.  He, like so many others, too many others never made it out that day.

September 11th shook the Dwight-Englewood community as it did our city and the entire nation.  Half of our arts faculty were living in Manhattan at the time and it was an epic and tragic moment simply to attempt going home that day.

 Jennifer Lee 11' now studying at Pratt, created this mixed media painting in response to 9/11 as part of her Post 9/11 literature class at Dwight-Englewood.  The chains, attempting to arrest time as a shuttle is about to crash into the abyss.  A shuttle, reminding us of other tragic moments, the drips in two simple columns.

 Our hearts are with all of the families, firefighters, police, soldiers, children, friends,...As artists and designers we will help lead the call to Never Forget!

Summer Connections, Summer Arts & Museum Trips...

What an exciting day for D-E to be able to host a delegation from China and show them all the wonders of the Museum of Modern Art first hand.  Pictured here are Gregg Emery (arts chair), Cooper 10', Ian Miller 10', Ally Rodrigues 10', Helen Li 08' and Tina Chang 11'.

A Summer Connections class in Museum Studies.

On the road with the 'Museum Studies' Class.

A Closer look at Brancusi...                Stay Tuned for more Summer Fun at the Museums,...and Art Making!!!