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Arts instructor Ascha Drake shares about a recent field trip. Recently, the 3D Foundations 1A students left The Bay School studio and ventured to Crissy Field to look at the Mark di Suvero installation. "The pieces connect with the Golden Gate Bridge." Observed one student. "How did they get here?" Asked another student. The pieces …
Peter Engel, father of Gabriel  '16, visited the 3-D Foundations 1A class on Friday, Jan. 10. Peter is able to balance being a professional origami artist (he exhibits all over the country and has published three books focused on origami) along with being a professional architect in Berkeley. Both practices feed one another, and Peter …
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Arts Instructor Ascha Drake shares her art classes' experience at the de Young's current exhibit. Students in the Drawing 1A and Painting 1A classes ventured to the de Young last week to see the David Hockney exhibition, which is up through Jan. 20. It is the largest show in the history …
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Arts Instructor Ascha Drake on  the start of her T2 sculpture class. The 3D Foundations 1A class has gotten off to an exciting start! Students are focusing on the beauty of paper. Plain 8 ½ x 11 pieces of white printer paper. The challenge: What actions can you impose on paper to transform its materiality? Twisting, folding, …
Arts instructor Ascha Drake shares about The Bay School Zine Club's most recent project. The Bay School Zine Club is coming out with their second self-published zine! The theme is Begendings ... the merging of beginnings and endings, which hitches into the idea of "transitions." The group decided that a circular format was an intriguing …
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