Visual Arts

How do you film a dream, illustrate a fairy tale with clay, photograph an idiomatic expression? How do you paint a landscape with oil paint or watercolor, make a limited edition of etchings? Be inspired by the professional faculty, visiting artists, and exhibitions at the Mercy Gallery. The visual arts program at Loomis Chaffee is centered in the Richmond Art Center, which offers professional studios in drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, digital photography, computer graphics, and videography.

Student Artists Receive Scholastic Arts Awards

Three Loomis Chaffee students were honored for their art with awards in the 2010 Connecticut Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition and exhibition. Senior Mackenzie Merrick received an honorable mention for her printmaking, and seniors Susannah Stark and Katharine White took Gold Key awards for painting and photography, respectively. Susannah and Katharine were two of just 210 Gold Key recipients out of a pool of more than 1,700 submitted works.

The competition, which is organized by the Connecticut Art Education Association, is part of the National Scholastic Art Awards. Created in 1927, the awards were designed to honor the “creative excellence” of young artists. Works by top state award winners and Gold Key recipients are entered in a national competition with an awards ceremony and exhibition in New York City.

Student submissions are juried by professional artists and university faculty. A statewide art exhibition at the University of Hartford Art School’s Silpe Gallery displayed the winning entries.