Visual Arts Department Launches “I Am an Artist” Project

In an effort to increase student awareness of the way artists live and work and to encourage students to “think like artists,” the Visual Arts Department recently launched the “I am an Artist” project. This ongoing program brings artists and related professionals to campus to engage with Upper School students, and offers special activities such as trips to visit artists in their studios to observe and collaborate.

 

This winter, participating students worked with Camilla Taylor at the Josephine Press to create their own mono prints and collaborated with Amir Fallah for his “Perfect Strangers” exhibition at the 18th Street Art Center. They also visited the studios of Dave Lefner and Joshua Callaghan to select artwork for the student-curated exhibition “Feigned: Real and Not Real Everyday Things,” which runs through March 19 in the Sam Francis Gallery.

 

Freshman Koyan Sidibe was part of the Amir Fallah outing. “It was really exciting being a part of that, because my class had the experience of modeling for the talented artist,” she says. “I gained and learned a lot just by seeing the artist at work. … Even the little things can make the art we make that much better and more loyal to our visions as artists.”

The "I Am an Artist" project is made possible by a special gift from Stephen and Karen Mills.