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Visual Arts
The Visual Arts program at Rivers cultivates a lifelong involvement in the arts. The department teaches creative problem solving, fosters cooperation, and encourages risk taking. Students apply what they have learned to the creation of works of art. Through active participation, students develop imagination, self-confidence, self-discipline, self-reliance, visual literacy, and a honed awareness of the visual world. Through critique and the study of art history, students learn how images communicate and how to look critically at images.
Rivers has four art studios, an etching press, eight potter’s wheels, and two electric kilns. An extensive photography lab allows for complete film development and printing. Other facilities include a fully-equipped sculpture space and three gallery areas. Studio offerings include courses in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, computer graphics, and sculpture.
Visual Arts News
List of 3 news stories.
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Girlhood and Womanhood Across Borders and Culture: Visiting Artist Rania Matar
Photographer Rania Matar sees symmetry and beauty in places others may overlook—a bedroom, a street corner, an abandoned theater. For Matar, the work is inseparable from her own observations and personal identities as a Lebanese-born Palestinian/American artist and mother. Matar was on campus Tuesday to present her art and visit with members of the Rivers community, as the latest participant in the Visiting Artist series at Rivers. On exhibit now at Rivers are two offerings from Matar’s body of work: “A Girl and Her Room” and “Where Do I Go? 50 Years Later” which can be viewed in the Baldwin Family Art Commons and the Bell Gallery, respectively, through February 3.Read More -
Visiting Artist Whitney Robbins: Brown is Beautiful
Read MoreNot everyone sees the potential in the color brown. But for artist Whitney Robbins, a former member of the Rivers visual arts faculty, it literally opens doors—not to mention windows—as reflected in their exhibition “Brown Series,” which went on display in the Baldwin Family Art Commons, in The Revers Center, this week. -
Student Work Recognized in Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Visual art and writing have always been serious pursuits at The Rivers School. Under the guidance of dedicated faculty members, students have the opportunity to express themselves creatively in a range of media throughout their years at Rivers. That creativity was recognized recently when the Massachusetts results of the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition were announced. Forty-three works of visual art by Rivers students were honored, and 12 works garnered awards in the writing categories.Read More
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