HOLTON-ARMS SCHOOL: ENJOYING THE PROCESS OF ART

摘要

Just walking into the warm and inviting art studios of Holton-Arms School, a private, all-girls school for grades 3-12 in Bethesda, MD outside of Washington, DC, hearkens one back in time to college days of still life and figure drawing, and the pungent smells of pastels and oil paints. In fact, the Holton-Arms art department, part of their extensive fine arts program, feels much more like a college art studio than high school. It graces a two-level complex of studios including a darkroom and two kiln rooms.The ceramics classroom overlooks the drawing and painting studio below, complete with winding metal staircase. Nandini Giridharadas, the Chair of the Art Department and the ceramics instructor for advanced students in grades 10-12, has been teaching at Holton for eight years.