Tag: art
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JOSEF ALBERS: LEARNING TO SEE THROUGH COLOR
Grade 4 Elementary School Project, November 2025Color is a tricky companion. It shifts, deceives, glows, and hides, depending on what sits beside it. No one understood this better than Josef Albers, one of the great teachers of the twentieth century. Albers spent decades exploring how colors speak to one another, how one hue can appear…
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From Leaf to Light: The Mosaic Drawing
This project began with a simple act: stepping outside. Students walked through the school grounds as autumn slipped toward winter, searching the ground for fallen leaves. They became observers of seasonal change, noticing how time reshapes the natural world. Some leaves were torn by wind, some freckled by decay, some filled with intricate networks of…
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IB Visual Arts × MAXXI, 1+1: Relational Art
Our IB Visual Arts students spent the day inside the living architecture of MAXXI. From the moment they stepped inside, the space asked them to slow down and look differently. This was not a gallery of still objects. It was a set of encounters waiting to happen. Students gathered in clusters, pointing, comparing, mapping the…
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Where Does the Art Live?
Grade 9 History of Art | Light, Space, and Perception In this Grade 9 History of Art project, students stepped into the worlds of James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson, artists who shape perception through light, space, and the quiet drama of seeing. Instead of beginning with monumental installations, the class began with something intimate: a…
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Seeing Rome Through the Eyes of a Realist
This project challenged students to capture modern Rome through the lens of Realism, asking: If a Realist artist were alive today, how would they depict the city? Drawing from the tradition of 19th-century Realist painters like Courbet, Daumier, and Millet, who rejected idealization in favor of documenting ordinary life, students explored contemporary urban environments with…
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Drawing and Painting Students Master the Art of Perspective
Our Drawing and Painting students have produced an impressive series of perspective studies that demonstrate both technical precision and creative vision. Through five distinct works, they explore increasingly complex spatial challenges while maintaining mathematical accuracy and artistic sensitivity. The first study, a library interior, showcases masterful handling of one-point perspective. The repetitive elements of shelving…
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Elementary Art as a Process of Discovery
In this series of drawings by our Elementary School students, we encounter a unique form of expression that is both immediate and highly individual. The drawings reveal a natural process of visual exploration where each line, shape, and color becomes a tool for discovery. In these early stages, young artists engage with art as a…
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Organic Abstraction: The Fusion of Nature and Geometry
Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Philosophy of ‘Organic Architecture‘ Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy of Organic Architecture urges us to “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.” In this exhibition, our students have fully embraced this ethos, not simply replicating the natural world, but distilling its essence through the lens of geometry. The result is…
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‘Whispers Island’: A Contemporary Art Journey for Students
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Whispers Island—an educational resource now available on Instagram, designed specifically to enrich the learning experience of our art students. This carefully curated collection of contemporary art images offers an immersive, dynamic learning space. At Whispers Island, students are not just viewing a gallery of modern works—they are…
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Art 6 Prehistoric Cave Paintings
In our Art 6 class, students have been diving into the world of prehistoric cave paintings, experimenting with techniques that echo the methods of ancient artists. Using absorbent, crumpled paper as their canvas, they faced the challenge of rendering animal forms on the rough, uneven surfaces—just as prehistoric artists might have done on cave walls.…
MMI Art Expanded Classroom 