Yesterday we visited Harvard Westlake and attended a few classes as well. Their campus is unbelievably beautiful, situated on top of a hill overlooking the city.
Their schedule is somewhat similar to ours, but they attend classes only four days.
One of the most striking things there was a beautiful art gallery, and they also use it to showcase a local artist often. It convinced all of us even more of the value of having an art gallery. The gallery also has a mounted flat screen for video art, which was a nice feature.
The school offers a digital film course, and they gave us some dvds of their films. They invite a different person from feature films to speak at the campus each year when the student projects are completed, which is another idea we could emulate.
They also did a wonderful job of portraying their school in their handouts, literary magazine, digital film festival, etc. There is much more that I want to share, but not enough time to write about it…so that will be my “school snapshot” for now.
