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Currently up in the Glass Gallery space is the BUGS! Exhibit featuring the work of Sculpture 1A artists. Students looked closely at the way little critters are formed, honing in on the patterns, formations, shapes, and details that nature has provided for them to survive. As students worked on the project, they were asked …
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing! Last Thursday, The Bay School was certainly a-swing as students from three local middle school bands attended Bay’s first ever Jazz Fest. Students spent the afternoon participating in workshops with Tunnel Six, an international jazz group with members hailing from Canada and across the …
On February 13, Tim Wall, a product designer with Amazon’s Lab 126 http://www.lab126.com/index.htm , visited the 3-D Foundations 1A class. Tim witnessed the “cardboard chair challenge,” at Morning Meeting, and was impressed with the durability and designs of the chair outcomes. Students in the class had 10 days to research, brainstorm, build maquettes and models, …
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 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, …
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