"We prepare students to engage in the world that is and to help bring about a world that ought to be."
Curriculum Detail
Faculty
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Isabel DominguezDepartment Chair - Visual Arts(212) 979-5030 x4329School of Visual Arts
Boston University - BA
Columbia University Teacher's College - MA -
Morgan AchesonTeacher - Visual Arts(212) 979-5030 x4404School of Visual Arts - MAT
Parsons School of Design - BFA -
Miranda JangTeacher - Visual ArtsSchool of Visual Arts - MA
School of Visual Arts - BFA -
Jesse PascaTeacher - Visual Arts(212) 979-5030 x4376City College New York - MA
School of Visual Arts - BFA -
Stephanie TeoTeacher - Visual Arts(212) 979-5030 x4371Brown University - BA
Columbia University - MA
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Visual Arts
The Visual Arts program at Friends Seminary offers Middle School students opportunities to experiment, invent, create, play and wonder. Through this process, students celebrate themselves as thinkers and observers of the world. Students are provided with structure that fosters individual and collaborative discovery, and work towards mastery of the materials and methods presented. From exploring mixed media and sculpture to working with pencil and brush, middle schoolers focus on myriad forms of visual expression. We celebrate the willingness of each student to take risks, engage their curiosity, practice unhurried contemplation and reflection, and strengthen their artistic voice. Along the way they achieve not only artistic growth, but also personal growth: embracing the traditional, challenging the conventional, occasionally brushing against the avant-garde.
Grade 5 students attend 2D and 3D Studio Art over the course of the year, meeting three times during our eight-day cycle. Grade 6 students take Shop and Fiber and also meet three times per cycle. Students in Grades 7 and 8 take one semester of Studio Art each year and meet twice during an eight-day cycle.
Friends Seminary actively promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism in all its programs and operations, including admissions, financial aid, hiring, and all facets of the educational experience. To form a community which strives to reflect the world’s diversity, we do not discriminate on the basis of race or color, religion, nationality, ethnicity, economic background, physical ability, sex, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. Friends Seminary is an equal opportunity employer.
Friends Seminary — the oldest continuously operated, coeducational school in NYC — serves college-bound day students in Kindergarten-Grade 12.
