The class is a hands-on workshop which will teach the fundamentals of acting technique and speech performance.
Fine Arts
Creative expression is an integral and essential part of human development. Robust opportunities to perform and create - in the visual arts, music and theater - encourage students to become creative problem-solvers, divergent thinkers, and positive risk-takers.
Through the experience of giving and receiving feedback, aiming for precision, and patiently committing to a process, students develop skills and behaviors that contribute to resilience and individual wellness. In addition to acquiring technical expertise, they become more perceptive and understanding, which enhances all of their academic and personal pursuits. Lastly, students develop cultural competence by appreciating the role of the arts in our heritage and cultures - individually, in community, and globally.
Whether students' interests are in the performing and/or visual arts, our dedicated and experienced faculty artists will provide expert guidance and encouragement.
Fine Arts Courses
- Acting 1
- Acting 2
- Advanced Acting
- Beginning Brass
- Beginning Piano
- Ceramics 1
- Ceramics 2
- Concert Band
- Design for Theatre
- Drawing 1
- Drawing 2
- Honors Art Portfolio
- Honors Ceramics Studio
- Honors Theatre Studies
- Jazz Ensemble
- Music Theory & Composition 1
- Music Theory & Composition 2
- Percussion Ensemble
- Piano 1
- Piano 2
- Piano 3
- Play Production
- Playwriting
- Printmaking 1
- Printmaking 2
- Sculpture
- SJP Chorus
- Songwriting Workshop
- String Ensemble
Acting 1
Acting 2
Advanced Acting
Beginning Brass
Beginning Piano
Ceramics 1
Ceramics 2
Concert Band
Design for Theatre
Drawing 1
Drawing 2
Honors Art Portfolio
Honors Ceramics Studio
Honors Theatre Studies
Jazz Ensemble
Music Theory & Composition 1
Music Theory & Composition 2
Percussion Ensemble
Piano 1
Piano 2
Piano 3
Play Production
Playwriting
Printmaking 1
Printmaking 2
Sculpture
SJP Chorus
Songwriting Workshop
String Ensemble
Meet the Department
Fine Arts Courses
This course covers a variety of topics including playmaking, voice, character development, writing, and directing.
This course will investigate elements of performance art, physical acting and non-verbal communication techniques.
Students will explore various styles of theater from ancient Greek theater to 20th Century in a series of classroom workshops.
A continuation of painting with a concentration on pursuing individual areas of interest and more advanced technical media.
This is for the student interested in working with varied and larger sculpture materials. Students will work with the instructor to develop an individual design plan.
Students will work together and individually out of the Standards of Excellence Book 1 to learn how to play either the trumpet or trombone.
This is an introductory course for those interested in learning to play keyboard instruments.
This course will teach students the fundamentals of hand-building with clay using pinch pot, coil and slab methods with an introduction to the potter's wheel.
Students will build upon the wheelworking and handbuilding techniques they learned in Ceramics 1.
The focus of this course is on rehearsing and performing traditional Concert Band repertoire.
This workshop course will focus on the role of the designer as a technical artist.
This course includes the opportunity to explore various media such as pencil, ink, charcoal, pastels, etc.
Structural drawing, life drawing, drawing from the masters, landscape, portraiture, and abstraction will be areas studied in this course.
This course is a flexible studio structure where the advanced art student will work individually with the instructor to develop and design areas of artistic direction.
This course builds upon the skills learned in Ceramics 1 and 2 in order to explore more advanced forms and decorative techniques.
Students will explore topics like scenic painting, playwriting, or sound, costume, and lighting design.
This group will perform at various locations in Massachusetts, and on select years, takes a tour within the United States or abroad.
Students will explore and perform a wide variety of big band jazz forms including blues, Dixieland, swing, bebop, and others.
Students will learn about note reading, rhythms, major scales, key signatures, pentatonic modes, form and more.
This course explores advanced theory and compositional techniques, including minor scales, four part harmony, seventh chords, polyphony, progressions, counterpoint, 12 tone technique, and others.
This course will deal with the development of personal style and preference of materials by experimentation with various media.
Each student will have a hands-on learning experience with a variety of percussive instruments and will perform together in concert.
This course explores the specific techniques and repertoire for piano in a Masterclass format; i.e. through individual practice and frequent performance for the class and instructor.
Students will act as a small theatre company and experience the total theatrical event including producing, budget issues, rehearsal schedules, acting, directing, stage management, theatre house management, design and technical crew.
This course focuses on the development of dramatic scripts using playwriting techniques, creative writing techniques, and researching and developing sources.
This course is an introduction to the basic techniques of printmaking. Linocut, woodcut, silkscreen, etching, mixed media, and stencil printing will be explored.
Students will explore linocut, woodcut, silkscreen, etching, mixed media, and stencil printing.
This course is an introduction to sculpture focusing on technique and use of a variety of materials including wood, metals, clay, and found objects.
The SJP Chorus prepares a wide range of choral repertoire, including classical music, folk songs, jazz, spirituals and world music.
Students will also explore poetic forms and devices for lyric writing.
This course is open to all violin, viola, cello and string bass players who are at the intermediate or advanced level.
Beginning Strings class is for those students who wish to start learning violin, viola or cello, and for those students who had some experience in the past but would like to start fresh.