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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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Editorial Cartoon: A Brief, Yet Impactful, Middle School Art Unit
Chris Love, a Rivers visual arts faculty member, pioneered an Editorial Cartoon unit at Rivers that has Middle School art students thinking critically about the world around them. Tailored specifically towards his eighth-grade art students, Editorial Cartoon is a brief yet impactful exercise designed to engage students in social and political discourse through artwork. The primary objective is to create a platform for students to reflect on the causes they care about and find a way to voice thoughts and opinions through art.Read More -
Upper School Art Show: Celebrating Creativity from the Fall Semester
Each year, Rivers hosts four student art shows: a fall all-student exhibition showcasing Upper and Middle School artwork from the previous spring, an Upper School student show at the start of the second semester highlighting fall semester work, a Middle School art show in May, and a senior show running concurrently. On February 18, a gallery reception introduced a variety of student work across a wide range of mediums that span the entire arts curriculum, including the Foundation courses, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Mindfulness in Drawing, Ceramics, Sculpture, Photography, and Identity and Reality: Cinematic Production and Critical Studies. The exhibit, on display in the Bell Gallery and the Baldwin Family Art Commons through April 17th, is a vibrant and inspirational experience.Read More -
Rivers Students Honored in 2024-25 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of Massachusetts
At Rivers, students have the opportunity to express themselves through a variety of creative outlets, from writing to visual arts. This creativity was recognized when the Massachusetts results of the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition were announced on January 29. Competing at a high level in this prestigious program, Rivers students created memorable works that exemplify the Awards’ core values: originality, skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Thirty-nine works of visual art by Rivers students were honored this year, along with five pieces garnering awards in the writing categories.Read More
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