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Inspire, Appreciate, Create: Lower School Visual Arts

1/30/2024

Evie Coates and Kathryn Swords, Lower School Art Teachers

Our Lower School visual arts curriculum embraces imagination, encourages personal expression, and engages the ability to communicate using visual language. While exploring a range of art techniques and materials such as painting, drawing, ceramics, and mixed media, our young artists’ creative voices begin to emerge and bloom.

Woven throughout the Lower School art experience is a consistent reference to the elements of art and a growing understanding of how they help us bring creative ideas out of our minds and into reality. Our students also learn to understand and appreciate the perspectives of others as they study art from other cultures and are exposed to the work of both traditional and contemporary artists.

We seek opportunities to work across disciplines, creating rich, holistic experiences to deepen the adventure of learning. Our hope is that this joyful environment inspires in each child a love and gratitude for the broad world of visual art that they will carry with them, wherever their paths may lead.

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