6th and 7th Grade TBS Logo Installations

6th and 7th Grade TBS Logo Installations

In the independent spirit of the Berkeley School, students in the 6th and 7th grade created marker on acetate reinterpretations of the TBS Logo. Exploring color, texture, and pattern, students created original works within the parameters of the TBS Logo font and graphic layout.

You can view these changing installations on the Main Office door, the Depot main door, the Middle School main door, and the Art Studio Door.

Reimagined Books for the 

Imagine/Reimagine Art Show at the Berkeley School

Beginning with a donation of books from a middle school library in San Francisco. Eighth graders chose from this lot of recycling-bound books to use in their altered book project. Sorting through titles, sizes, eras, content, colors, and their own relationship with books and reading or grappling with the content of a book, students made their choices.

Some students had a clear vision of the altered book they wanted to create, others had a sense of an alteration technique  they wanted to perform, such as folding or cutting out pages in the book. Starting with ideas, concepts and sketches recorded in their sketchbooks students began their projects. Students worked an average of 16 hours creating the detailed work presented in this year's Art Show, many adopting themes into their visuals that were inspired directly from the the subject matter in the book chosen, but every student heightened the visual possibilities housed in the words and structures of everyday publications like cookbooks, textbooks, history books, fiction, and illustrated children's books.

7th Grade Begins White Board Animations

Students in the seventh grade will spend the remaining months of the school year exercising their drawing and critical thinking skills. In their main project students will create an animation short using whiteboards, digital cameras, and imovie. Students will explore drawing techniques creating emotive characters and investigating the accents necessary to depict movement in drawings.