蘑菇传媒

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

Visual Arts



Explore Your Creative Side

What is there to learn?

Traditional design principles are emphasized while teachers work to build each student's practical skill set and sensitivity to the world around them. 蘑菇传媒 is unique in that all of our visual arts faculty are professional artists. This ensures a strong visual arts education for boys. 

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 蘑菇传媒's award winning student publication, The Talon. Our in person classes take several field trips to world-class collections including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Become an Artist at 蘑菇传媒

蘑菇传媒 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, 蘑菇传媒’s Visual Art Program will help you reach your full potential.

蘑菇传媒 Student Art

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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James Erickson

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    University of Virginia - BA 

    Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - MFA

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    After growing up in Michigan, James earned his BA at The University of Virginia while running track and cross country. He was a Lawn Resident at UVA and received the Sullivan Award and Aunspaugh Art Fellowship upon graduation. In 2011, James earned his MFA at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He served as the Art Director at The Heights School in Maryland from 2011-2016. James began teaching and coaching at 蘑菇传媒 in 2016, serves as Chairman of the Visual Arts Department, and holds the Virginia B. and Joseph M. Mercer 1924 Mastership of Art. He teaches painting and drawing courses and coaches indoor track. He lives on campus with his wife and six children. His paintings are represented by Cavallo Gallery in Gordonsville, VA, and Steven Francis Fine Arts in Lynchburg, VA. A portfolio of his work can be found at

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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 蘑菇传媒 home for over 24 years. In 2022, she earned an MFA in ceramics from Hood College, in Frederick MD, where she was awarded the Joyce Michaud Endowed Scholarship and the Ceramic Arts Program Outstanding Student Award. Shari has taught all levels of ceramics, from children’s workshops at community art centers to collegiate courses at Mary Baldwin University. Currently, along with teaching ceramics at 蘑菇传媒, she teaches at The Arts Center in Orange and Charlottesville’s City Clay, and she serves as director of the Charlottesville-area Artisans Studio Tour. A portfolio of her work can be seen . 

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Walker Antonio

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    BA - Fine and Studio Arts
    Wofford College

    MA - Fine and Studio Arts

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    Walker Antonio (b. USA) is a Virginia-based Filipino-American painter whose work blurs the boundaries between the real and surreal, the physical and psychological. Working primarily on a large scale, his process moves from energetic chaos to deliberate refinement. He earned his BA in Studio Art and Art History from Wofford College, where he received the 2023 Whetsell Family Fellowship. Antonio was awarded the Foundation House Artist Residency for 2025 and the Elf School of the Arts Residency for 2026. He was also the first visual artist selected for the Kenan-Lewis Fellowship at 蘑菇传媒, where he currently teaches drawing and painting while pursuing an MA in Fine Arts from Falmouth University.

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Lakota Coon

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蘑菇传媒 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.

Phone: 540-672-3900

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蘑菇传媒 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.