This is Miss Anastasiya Camp second year serving as ILS’ Art (and Theology) Teacher. She works with both Lower School and Upper School students to study Art History as well as develop their drawing and painting skills. ILS students can expand their studies and refine their skills by joining Miss Camp’s afterschool Art Club or by stopping in to visit her in her office in the Upper School Library.

Last May, Miss Camp founded Fine Arts Night at ILS, an exhibition of student artwork. It was one of the highlights of the school year and we look forward to the 2025 Fine Arts Night!

Miss Camp had this to share about the importance of her work as part of a classical education:

“We are very excited to see artistic progress of our ILS students in the Fine Arts. In just one year of implementing a new art curriculum students have grown to appreciate art and seek to recreate God’s beautiful creation using their creative God given talents and intelligence.

In our program our ILS students not only learn the truth, goodness, and beauty that comes with art, they also learn to connect different famous art works to major historical eras. The program is designed with each grade level in mind. For instance, this year in the upper school, we are introducing the Early Christian art and the Renaissance periods on top of last year’s Baroque and French Impressionists. As students learn about the different eras and mediums of art, we look to provide them the enrichment in imitating the many masterpieces in the same (or equivalent) techniques. The program is designed to equip our students to not only appreciate the works of the great historical masters of art, but also to develop their own skills with which they can then express their vision of God’s created World with all its beauty and wonder.”