Upper schoolers use the Robert Lehman Digital Arts Center to integrate digital technology and the arts for inter-departmental projects spanning the curriculum. Learning the philosophy of using the computer as an artistic tool and demonstrating the utility of integrating it with traditional artistic processes and other coursework is the main focus. Additional computer classes are available in the Grace After School Program. In Grace Church School's Robert Lehman Center in the Visual Arts, children have studio classes in art from their earliest years through Grade Eight. Starting in Junior Kindergarten children work with an art teacher in a studio setting, using craypas, tempera, clay, and papier mache.
Personal expression is encouraged.
The art faculty, all working artists, assign projects designed to stretch the imagination of their students. Along with free-choice painting, they create portraits, abstract works, still lifes, pictures of animals, people, plants, and cityscapes, and they cooperate on mural painting. As their abilities grow, they study perspective, light, and shadow. Ceramic work progresses from pottery to highly original sculptures, glazed and fired in the school's kilns. Throughout the program individual expression, imagination, and inventiveness are encouraged.