I can’t believe we have completed first semester! Not only have the students been busy learning in the classroom, but also beyond the four walls. My Upper School art students have taken several local field trips. We traveled to the Academy Center of Arts to view the art of Stuart Riordan, who is a Lynchburg native. In early December, we took a field trip to the Maier Museum at Randolph College. The students attended the 105th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Threatening Beauty. We also took a quick tour of Dreams that Money Can Buy, by renowned conceptual artist Hans Haacke.
In addition to visiting some local art museums, the Upper School students attended a Greek play at Randolph College where they were exposed to a comedic Greek drama. During the fall, the Upper School traveled to Yoder’s Farm where they worked together to get through a corn maze and enjoyed a beautiful fall day outside of the classroom. All of the New Vistas students attended History Day, which was held at Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s summer home. The students participated in a hands-on-history experience where they created bricks out of Jeffersonian clay and wrote with quills. –Ellen Humphrey, US Science and LS/US Art
