Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery

Something positive to view today: The Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences Presents Highlights from Middle School Visual Arts JANUARY 7, 2020 ... An Online Exhibition Highlights of works in progress, process, and completed projects while remote but connected from Middle School visual arts students in Studio Art, Ceramics, Photography, Film Productions, and Graphic Design & Animation. http://www.samfrancisgallery.org/2021-highlights-from-middl Image: Ellie L., 6th Grade Studio Art From the Project "The Body as Artistic Inspiration: Creating Expressionist Hearts."

DECEMBER 9, 2020 An Online Exhibition For this exhibition, Level 3 visual arts students in Studio Art, Ceramics, Photography, and Graphic Design & Animation responded to the question: How do you visualize the word repair or something that needs to be fixed?... Visit the show here: www.samfrancisgallery.org/2020-level-3

Crossroads Faculty open the new school year with an online exhibition. Exhibition: Sept. 9-Oct. 14, 2020 "We’re Beginning, we began, we’ve begun" features artworks created by members of Crossroads School’s K-12 Visual Art Department. With each teaching artist having an established artmaking practice, their process and experience has become a foundation on which they teach. As we open the school year remotely, the Visual Arts faculty at Crossroads continue to explore various methods to approach teaching students in virtual spaces while expanding their own creative processes. Every day, these artists bring with them their extensive knowledge, experience and passion from their practice into the spaces they share with students.

We've been posting our end of the year exhibitions on our Instagram page. Swing by! MAY 18-23: Upper School May 25-29: Middle School... June 1-5: Elementary School Visual Arts faculty will feature work by Elementary School, Middle School, and Upper School Visual Arts students on the gallery’s Instagram account. The artwork spans mediums such as sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, studio art and multimedia arts. Daily virtual visits are encouraged!

Launching the CAS Visual Arts exhibition today on our updated website! Congratulations, c/o 2020!!! SamFrancisgallery.org

Shingo Francis' (c/o '88) works will be at William Turner Gallery with Peter Lodato, opening this Saturday.

Audrey in the gallery!

Exhibition: October 23-November 15, 2019 Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences presents When Grief Strikes: a new era featuring Thirst by Chad Person. It is 2019 and there is a sense of urgency. Instead of writing to their leaders, youth... are in their faces demanding change in order to preserve the planet. Students have come together in droves, insisting that adults become accountable as they draw a line in the sand in hopes to protect their future. In 2010, Chad Person debuted Thirst, a 15-foot inflatable sculpture of the once-iconic ExxonMobil Pegasus lying down and gasping for breath in a show titled Surviving the End of Your World. Today, collective humanity is aware and indeed occupied by the reality of scarce global oil supplies, Person says in his artist statement. Foreshadowing this situation, Pegasus, the former Mobil Gasoline logo, has been retired from its role as color guard to one of the world’s most profitable corporations. Once everywhere, resource and icon alike are now vanishing, and we are forced to move on. The mythical Pegasus was a poignant archetype for the Mobil Petroleum logo. Born of pure good and selflessness, Pegasus sprang from a patch of earth where the wicked blood of Medusa had spilled and mixed with the soil. Nine years since its inception, Thirst continues to be relevant. The once-triumphant symbol of the industrial revolution is recast as a weak and dying icon, one that has succumbed to effects of climate and has been toppled by a new generation that demands radical change. Chad Person received his MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico. His work is included in the public collections of The West Collection (PA), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA) and The University of New Mexico Art Museum (NM). He has had solo exhibitions in Albuquerque, Marfa and River Falls, and been featured in the PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair.

Works by Crossroads alumnus Shingo Francis '88 are featured in "Kaleidoscope: moments in time" for an exhibition in the Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery, ...which is named after the artist's late father. An opening reception will be held in the gallery today, Sept. 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. Full story: https://www.xrds.org/news?pk=1114814

Join us this afternoon for our first Alumni Biennial with Shingo Francis’ exhibition, Kaleidoscope: moments in time! Check out a film for the show by alum and current parent, Stephen Leeds. https://vimeo.com/359026826

Our first show of the school year! Shingo Francis c/o '88

Our Seniors Thesis Exhibition Week 1 opens today!