The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum
The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum
The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

Exploring Doodling’s Dual Purposes

Bernadette Whitely and Julia Blum • December 20, 2018

Many students have different methods to keep focused in a activities such as a long class discussion or a test. These mannerisms become automatic and natural to many students. Molly Liston ‘22, explains...

The Martha Bennett Gallery Team together in the Gallery. Not pictured: Azalea Hallin-Graber '19

Getting Behind the Scenes of the Gallery

Zoe Wellik, Staff Writer • September 30, 2018

Grade lounges and other seating areas are filled daily with the same routine of friends in the moments before class in the morning. However, between the original Northrop building and the science wing...

"Back to School" Gallery Installation Opens

“Back to School” Gallery Installation Opens

William Lyman, Features Editor • September 9, 2018

Returning to the Martha Bennett Gallery is the “Back to School” exhibition, curated by Sara Gregor ‘19 and Azalea Hallin-Graber ‘19. The installation features all forms of art created and submitted...

Bethke’s art portraying South African culture hung in the Martha Bennett Gallery spanning from February 21 to March 14.

Martha Bennett Gallery displays new prints

Josie Lagerstrom, Co-Editor-In-Chief • March 16, 2018

The current Martha Bennett Gallery exhibit features work personal to art teacher Brian Sago. Karl Bethke, with his exhibit entitled “A Visual History of Rorke’s Drift,” was Sago’s printmaking and...

Feminist Art

Feminist Art

Elizabeth Opp, Opinions Editor • May 26, 2017

Maya Chadda '19 had ten of her pieces of artwork published in the blog "Girls Right the World" on April 25, 2017. Chadda was put in touch with the publisher of the blog through the sophomore dean,...

Sense of Touch

Zoe Wellik, Staff Writer • December 3, 2015

In a high school such as Blake, teachers often tell students to reach outside the classroom to find educational events and interactions to further independent learning. After all, it isn’t as if the...

Engaging all senses in art

Engaging all senses in art

Averi Sullivan, Staff Writer • December 3, 2015

Synesthesia: a condition in which one sense or part of the body is simultaneously perceived by one or more additional sense. Another form of synesthesia joins objects – letters, shapes, numbers,  names...

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