Fine and Applied Arts

Students working with Ms. Ringquist in Art Studio 54 have been creating and glazing a multitude of pots!  The day that I visited, students were dipping their pots into a bucket of glaze just like professional ceramists do!  The art room was buzzing with activity as the students prepared their pots for glaze by waxing [...]

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During their five years at Noah Wallace, students will engage in a developmentally spiraled curriculum which continues to build skills and develops their deeper understandings in our six overarching concepts ~ Architecture, Design, Cultural Symbol Systems, Landscape, Portrait, Still Life.
By exploring and participating in planned hands-on learning activities, students become constructors of their own knowledge. [...]

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Dave Ferry of Newington, and retired art teacher at Farmington High School, has been illustrating professionally since his 2006 retirement.  Besides his illustration he has published two works under the trademark “Ferryland” that utilize his talents as a cartoonist.
“12 Step Program To Health & Nutrition: A 2010  Calendar” by Registered Dietitian, Carol Blanchard of NYC, [...]

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Respect Mural
This mural was developed in response to Irving A. Robbins’ ”respect” initiative.  Within the mural, students are displaying respect for themselves, others as learners, property and the environment.  Lead designer and artist was 8th grade student Giselle Koo who engaged several other students in her project, which now hangs in the cafeteria.

Imagine mural
Irving A. Robbins student Sage VanSchelt designed [...]

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Students from Mr Corrigan’s Alternate Energy Vehicle Design class and Mr. Wright’s Designing Minds class have begun preparation for the 2009-2010 Electrathon America season.
Electrathon is a type of ELECTRIC MARATHON in which the winner is determined by how far you go in a certain time with a given amount of battery power. Electrathon America class [...]

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