George School’s Walton, Hallowell, and Main Galleries showcased work created by student artists. Displayed through Wednesday, November 2, 2011, pieces from painting and drawing, woodworking, ceramics, and photography classes are on view.

In Walton Gallery, the photography students in Digital Imaging and Alternative Photo Processes have work on exhibit. The Digital Imaging students displayed posters from their summer book project assignment. “Our students traveled to Vietnam, Italy, St. Martin, Cuba, Vermont, and Philadelphia,” said Danielle Picard-Sheehan. “I am very impressed by the variety of different approaches to the book project, which can be seen in the exhibit of their posters.”

Sean Laracy ’12 captured people “sitting on benches, walking, or talking with friends” to show how “Italians, and Europeans in general spend their free time, instead of spending hours sitting in front of a TV or computer screen.”

Sending a completely different message, Jaye Plumb ’12 transferred images of the poor in Vietnam onto common prayer flags, items “that people may see, but not think about,” in order to underscore “that the impoverished are always overlooked.”

Alternative Photographic Processes students created visual metaphors by combining their images into a found object. A few examples of the projects range from portraits of people in Vietnam printed on transparencies sewn onto a Tibetan flag, family portraits collaged onto a sculpture of a tree, and a documentary on the recent and recurring flooding of the Delaware River placed into a shadow box frame.

Student hand-study drawings from the painting and drawing classes and ceramics students’ mugs and closed-form strawberries, complete down to the leaves and seeds, are displayed in Main Gallery. The ceramics work showcases students’ first work in class. The strawberries, for example, were created by most students only the third time they had touched clay.

Student woodworking, all originally designed, is on display in the lobby of Hallowell. The magnificent pieces include glass-topped tables, a vertical storage unit, and a table for storing yarn. The pieces show an array of techniques, from turning to bending, veneering to color use.

Works on display represent some of the George School Arts Department’s twenty arts courses in ten different visual and performing arts forms, with Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate course options.