FINE ART

At Wilberforce, the fine arts are an essential part of each student's experience.

Our students learn to appreciate and create art in all its forms as they take each of these core curriculum classes.

Seeing, creating, performing works of beauty. To venture onto a stage or a canvas is to take a risk, to grow, to collaborate, to gain confidence, to enjoy beauty by creating it.

 

Visual Arts

We honor God as creator of all beauty and acknowledge ourselves to be creators in His image. As part of learning how to create art, students imitate classical artwork - its techniques, media, skills, and forms. Whether painting, sculpting, viewing, or studying art history, our students strive to achieve artistic excellence and to find a feast for mind and heart in creative expression.

Theater

Drama allows students to put themselves into other times and situations, to understand motives and assess reactions. Drama also provides great opportunities for building community, problem solving, meeting deadlines, developing skills in speaking, costume design, set making, technology, and marketing. Starting with skits and antiphonal recitations, moving through short plays in Lower School, Class Seven presentations and Class Eight declamations, Upper School Musical, and culminating with the plays our Junior and Senior classes perform each year—drama is essential to the Wilberforce education.

Music

Music is a gift from God, and a way to praise God. The goal of our music instruction is for our students to appreciate and create beautiful music. Students discover the joys of choral performance and music history. From Kodaly solfege to ensemble presentations, from Gregorian chant to musical theatre, our students learn to listen, analyze, and perform.