Upper School Teachers Donna Russo, Amy Newman and Megan Bellwoar Hollinger spent a few weeks last summer exploring new and exciting trends in their disciplines — photography, studio art and theater — and how they could incorporate them into their classes this year. They soon focused on creating a series of pop-up displays and events, which are responsive to what is going on in the world, appear unannounced and disappear just as quickly.

The artwork pictured here, is an exception because it continues to hang on a wall in The Commons, months after students doodled on individual squares, not knowing how the assembled whole would look. More short-lived have been the impromptu performances created by the acting students in morning assembly and an improvised human traffic jam, which took place on the quad outside the Farmhouse.