Upper School Arts Program

Performing Arts

Our Performing Arts program offers a wide variety of options for students to showcase their talents across the different mediums.

Each year, our theater group presents two Main Stage plays, one of which focuses on dance and singing. Recent performances include Matilda, Singin’ in the Rain, Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up, and You on the Moors Now. There are also opportunities to get involved behind the scenes through our theater tech class, which builds skills in recording, sewing, lighting, props, and set production.

Our chamber music, jazz band, rock band and choir perform throughout the year, both on the main stage and at a range of campus events. These groups and sometimes individual students also have the option to perform for local and regional competitions. Students can also take classes in such areas as music recording and production, songwriting, and podcasting.

Visual Arts

Students can select from a diverse range of semester-long classes, from photography, video production, and drawing to ceramics, 2-D and 3D art-making, and woodworking. At the end of each semester, students' work is displayed in our Creative Arts Center. We also have a few opportunities during the year in which students can sell their work to the wider Catlin Gabel community.