Exhibition Description: "I create landscape photographs from small objects. Many of the photographs are images of ceramic objects I created, pieces where I experiment with texture, color, and glaze. I then photograph the objects with a macro lens and create abstract photographs which read as landscapes. These photographs transform small parts of objects into worlds that appear to exist in a totally different scale. The place where edges of clay meet may become a sunset; a particular area of glaze on a slab turns into a coastline, seen from above. At times I use water, soap, or other surface treatments to enhance the objects I photograph. The images have an ethereal quality and impart a sense of mystery. The viewer is left to wonder where these landscapes are, and if they exist in a real or imagined world."
Artist's Biography: Mia Rosenblatt Tinkjian received her MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and her JD from Boston College Law School. She is an interdisciplinary artist who enjoys using playing with a variety of materials. In her abstract photographs, she uses clay to create surfaces and to experiment with glazes. She photographs these surfaces in a way that challenges one's understanding of perspective, medium, and scale. The resulting large-scale photographs are giclee printed on matte, textured paper so that they blur the line between photography, painting, and drawing. After having children, Mia found that she spent a great deal of time playing with puzzles. The tools of childhood play soon became the material of her own artwork. In the puzzle pieces, Mia rearranges and recombines commercially produced jigsaw puzzles to create new images which form a commentary on their own visual content.
In April 2022, artist Peter Makela ’04 will travel to Nepal as a Fulbright Scholar. He’ll spend 10 months in the Kathmandu Valley pursuing his project, “The Radiant Emptiness of Space: Madhyamaka and Contemplative Perception,” while studying Madhyamaka philosophy at Rangjung Yeshe University, the world’s preeminent English-speaking Buddhist university. Learn more about Makela and his work.
“I’m not teaching drawing, painting, or printmaking. I’m teaching creative problem-solving,” says Upper School art teacher Meredith Turner. “My students may never draw, paint, or make a print again, but they’ll have to represent themselves both visually and verbally in the workplace. They’ll have to be willing to take risks, try new things, and make mistakes along the way in order to solve problems.”
Shipley senior Emma Lo has been recognized as a 2021 National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Classical Music (Piano). Through a rigorous audition process, she joins over 600of the most accomplished young visual, literary, and performing artists from across the country.
West Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Diverse Voices This exhibition focuses on nine visual artists who through their work are commenting on world issues ranging from the climate crisis, immigration and migration, and exposing human rights violations.
The Shipley School Performing Arts Department will present Beautiful Trouble to audiences everywhere on Friday, November 20 at 7:30 pm via the School's YouTube channel. The production replaces the traditional Fall Play and is a performance protest piece comprised of scenes, monologues, poetry, short films, and more. Beautiful Trouble hopes to raise awareness for issues that matter to students.
On Thursday, May 28 the Upper School virtually held their annual Closing Awards Ceremony. The Closing Awards celebrates student achievement in leadership, academics, and athletics. See the list of award recipients and descriptions of each award.
Eighth grader Aidan Peterson is living Shipley's mission of Compassionate Participation in the World. Since many of his concerts were canceled due to COVID-19, he recently played a "front porch" concert for an elderly couple in Bryn Mawr.
Shipley violinist Emma Lo ’21 recently participated in the PMEA (Pennsylvania Music Educators Association) District 11 Orchestra Festival and through a rigorous audition process, earned a seat at the Region VI Orchestra Festival.
Shipley violinist Saakshi Navile ’19 was selected to play in the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) 2018 All-National Honor Symphony Orchestra Ensemble. She is the first Shipley student to achieve this distinction.
Shipley Sixth-grader Annabella Asimos was selected to sing in the OAKE (Organization of American Kodaly Educators) National Youth Choir for the second year in a row.
During this February’s All School Assembly, Shipley’s 6th Grade School Choir performed “You Are Courageous to Me,” an original song with music and lyrics by Sarah Shoumer ’23, a new student at Shipley this year. In this post, Sarah tells us how she took her song from the page to the stage.
Two Shipley fifth graders, Elle Miller and Annabella Asimos, were recently selected to the OAKE (Organization of American Kodaly Educator’s) National Children’s Choir.
The Shipley School is a private, coeducational day school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students, located in Bryn Mawr, PA. Through our commitment to educational excellence, we develop within each student a love of learning and a desire for compassionate participation in the world.