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Arts Instructor Alison Frost shares a student-inspired lesson on color. In Drawing 1B, we began our unit on color by looking at the color wheel. I was explaining to the students how each medium that they use consists of a pigment and a binder, and that each pigment has its own qualities, just like …
Arts Instructor Ascha Drake shares excerpts from a recent lesson on color. The Painting 1A artists are beginning to think and work with color. The painters began the term using only black and white and shades of gray, so diving into color requires some thinking and patience. There is a complexity to color that is …
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A Note From Alumna Zoe '12 Hi there! The pilot for my webseries (I'm the co-creator) just went up online: I took the Video Production class at Bay with Karen Hellyer, and now I am a Radio/Television/Film major at Northwestern University. I plan to go into the film/television industry, so making this webseries is very …
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With the Fall Play approaching, The Bay School Blog sat down with Theater and World Languages Instructor Mary Ann Rodgers for an inside look at our theater program in-class and out. Mary Ann earned her bachelor’s in dramatic arts from UC Santa Barbara and a secondary school teaching credential in English and Spanish from SFSU. …
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Looking for something to do? Arts Instructor Ascha Drake reccommends the following cultural happenings for students and adults alike! The Oakland Museum celebrates The Day of the Dead http://museumca.org/event/19th-annual-days-dead-community-celebration Andy Goldsworthy’s Tree Fall in the Presidio ( just opened ! ) http://www.presidio.gov/about/press/Pages/Presidio-Trust-announces-opening-of-Tree-Fall.aspx David Hockney at the de Young Museum (opens Oct. 26) http://deyoung.famsf.org/ Matisse at …
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