Studio Arts

The visual arts program is designed to encourage and inspire creative thinking and to develop children’s skills in many areas of art. A spiraling curriculum allows students to make increasingly more complex use of drawing, painting, three-dimensional art, and printmaking. Students learn to appreciate and understand art through lessons in art history and in collaborative lessons with other disciplines, such as history, math, and science. Throughout the school year all students participate in art shows both on and off campus. Students are given opportunities to engage in community art events and projects such as the Arts for Healing program at Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and the Young Emerging Artists of the Hudson Valley multi-school art show, sponsored and organized by Dutchess Day School, at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y. The visual arts program encourages its students to act locally and globally by offering their artistic services and talents to help other children. All of Dutchess Day’s students are a part of a community arts outreach program that loans artwork for display at hospitals, libraries, and schools.

“Students learn to appreciate and understand art through lessons in art history and in collaborative lessons with other disciplines, such as history, math, and science.”