All boys. All boarding. Grades 9-12.
Arts

Visual Arts



Explore Your Creative Side

What is there to learn?

Traditional principles of design are emphasized while teachers work to build each student's practical skill set and sensitivity to the world around them.

Disciplines include: painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, photography and filmmaking. View all available visual art courses here.

Display Your Work and Admire Someone Else's

Students have the unique opportunity to display their work in the Baker Gallery as well as Woodberry's award winning student publication, The Talon. Our in person classes take several field trips to world-class collections including the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Museum of Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Become an Artist at Woodberry

Woodberry has a growing number of alumni continuing their studies at some of the best art schools around the country and moving on to become professional, teaching and working artists. Whether you have previously taken art classes or are interested in studying the subject for the first time, Woodberry’s Visual Art Program will help you reach your full potential.

Visual Arts Featured Faculty

Our diverse group of arts instructors offer students at our all-boys all-boarding school a wide range of experience in the visual arts having exhibited their work both in the US and Internationally.

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Sharon "Shari" Jacobs

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    Swarthmore College - BA
    Hood College - MFA

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    Shari Jacobs makes wheel-thrown porcelain and stoneware ceramics. Originally from the Midwest, she has called central Virginia home for over 20 years. In 2022, she earned an MFA in ceramics from Hood College, in Frederick MD. She now teaches ceramics at Mary Baldwin University and has taught ceramics at Woodberry Forest School since 2011. She is also the director of the Charlottesville-area Artisans Studio Tour.

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James Erickson

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  • Education

    University of Virginia - BA 

    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - MFA

  • Biography

    James Erickson returned to Woodberry in 2019 to teach visual arts. He taught part-time at Woodberry from 2016-2018 and spent a year teaching at Grymes Memorial School. He coaches varsity wrestling and distance for varsity track. Mr. Erickson and his wife, Jenna, a nurse, live in the Haynes House with their six children.

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Richard Robinson

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Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
Woodberry Forest, VA 22989
Phone: 540-672-3900

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Woodberry Forest admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and national or ethnic origin to all of the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs. The school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students.