Every January I travel south, usually before, but sometimes after the Super Bowl to visit with Walnut Hill alums in Florida. Some years, we travel both coasts, some years we do only one. This was one of those years where the east coast of Florida would outline our travel. Walnut Hill alums who call the Sunshine state home span recent graduates in the class of 2017, to alums playing as artistic fellows with New World Symphony between 2008 and 2010

I am always struck by the creativity displayed by members of our visual art department. The focus and philosophy on process and technique give way to a student-centered experience. Yesterday afternoon, awash with warm October sunlight, one of our drawing classes gathered al fresco on our common. They explored a drawing exercise that married one of our apple trees with a pre-Halloween still life created by chair of our visual art department, Jim Woodside.