Visual Arts

HDR Photo by Jake Smith, Class of 2012

The William Penn Charter School Visual Arts Department seeks to evoke a joyful curiosity in the pursuit of life-long learning in the visual arts, through an engaging curriculum that exercises the imagination, cultivates visual and cultural literacy, and builds technical skills in a variety of manual and digital media.

Visual Arts Studios/Classrooms
The William Penn Charter School Visual Arts department has six studio/classrooms in our three divisions. The Lower School has two studios, a two-dimensional studio for drawing, painting, collage, weaving and batik, and a fully equipped three-dimensional shop-studio for woodworking, ceramics and sculpture. The Middle School studio, room 100, supports both two and three-dimensional work, and utilizes the Middle School Atrium and other spaces for drawing and inter-disciplinary art projects. The Upper School has three well-equipped studios, including room 105, a large multi-purpose, two-dimensional studio that houses a digital lab for film, animation, and photography; a large studio for painting and drawing; a darkroom; and rooms 102-103, which are equipped for three-dimensional work, including 12 pottery wheels, ample room for hand-building and sculpture, two kilns, and a pugmill for recycling clay.

Divisions

Lower School

Middle School

Upper School

Faculty

Rebecca Cox Pre-K

Karen Riedlemeier Lower School

Carol Spadero  Lower School

Hanne Gradinger  Middle School

Randy Granger  Upper School

Ruth McGee  Upper School

Michael Roche  Upper School

Sheila Ruen Department Chair, Upper School

News and Exhibitions

Summer Works!