In the Simms Library, you will find a hexagonal complex of canvas walls.

As you walk through one of the openings, you will find yourself immersed in a world of furniture, music players, works of art etched onto canvas, CD disks, clay, and paper. The setup you are witnessing is called Visual Resonance.

Visual Resonance was built back in November, inspired by our theory that music is a strong artistic aid: it widens the horizon of the imagination. The chairs, cushions, and beds are the means of bringing music from wave to particle for you to live in. Aidan’s graphic design prints, for instance, explore the different ways one can perceive the same image. Cole’s “Circle of Life,” to give another, gives you the ability to experience nature’s beauty away from it. So pause as you travel to each piece, take a deep breath, and let the experiences of the artists seep into your own.

This exhibition was created as part of the Senior Studio class at Albuquerque Academy. It is a course comprised of students of the senior class of each given year. It is a class of a vastly diverse sense of passion in the visual arts, but what unites this wide range of elements are sight and touch. Students are expected to complete one piece of any kind by the end of each quarter. The reason for this is a rather philosophical tenet used by many great artists in history: the longer an artist spends imagining, planning, and doing, the more enjoyment and fulfillment they will feel, and the greater effect their work will have on the audience.

Before we head off to college, we want to leave you a message with Visual Resonance, that will, hopefully, inspire you to look at art not merely as an accurate depiction of an image on paper, or the workings of an advanced computer software. Like the performing arts, visual art is about experience- the experience of seeing the perspectives of others and their unique intakes of the emotional world, that of which is normally restrained by the need to moderate in the functioning of everyday academia. In other words, it is about bringing color to an atmosphere that many in our culture associate as bleak.

We highly encourage you to check out this display in-person before it is taken down on March 15th. Opportunities wasted return very slowly, if they return at all.

Class of 2026 Artists Featured: Aidan, Benjamin, Cole, Emrys, Grace, Jasper, Maaz, Nagi, Sunshine