This past summer, 13 stu­dents, chaperoned by Warren Fre­richs, Middle and Upper School Chinese teacher, and Frank Lo­pez, Upper School photography teacher, spent five weeks in China and Korea. Their purpose was to immerse themselves in many dif­ferent cultures, and photograph every part of their journey.

Lights! Camera! Action! With the addition of a new video production computer lab in the Fine Arts building, Hollywood may have got­ten a little closer. The room itself is not a new building, rather what used to be an open air heating condition­ing space which was refur­bished over the summer to accommodate the expanding film class.

“We keep expanding classes and offerings in Fine Arts,” said Corbin Doyle, Middle and Upper School visual arts teacher. “Film has a history of being a bit homeless. In the early days, we didn’t have a class. We would meet in the Rotunda and move in the seventh or eighth grade pods looking for an open space to watch, plan, and discuss movies.”

A large demand among students for spots in the vid­eo production class coupled with an increasing need for space for digital media, the Fine Arts building needed not only additions, yet more importantly rearrangements.