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Questions in Art and Art History

Life and education are more about the questions rather than the answers.  Boys seek their truth; who they are, what inspires them, where they find that "spark." Under the classical ideal of balance, Saint David's program is driven by questions that guide and prompt our boys to look closer, dig deeper, and explore those spaces. This approach is evident in two signature experiences that recently culminated: the second-grade winter art unit done in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the eighth-grade Nightingale-Bamford Lectures on Art.  "What do you see?" "What are you wondering about?" asked three second grade "docents" this morning as they stood in front of Alex Katz's Blue Umbrella during a culminating event for parents and faculty at the Guggenheim Museum, which also included an exhibit of the boys' original artworks in the Museum's Rotunda. The boys this morning, confident and well prepared, were asking us