Arts

A Seacrest education emphasizes the importance of the arts. The arts are essential because they foster imagination and creative problem-solving skills. Through the making of art, music, or theater, students learn to see, to hear, and to feel more keenly; to give objective structure to abstract and subjective concepts; and to develop critical judgment, open-mindedness, and independent thinking.

At Seacrest, students learn the arts primarily through active involvement in the creative process. Students first participate in a required arts course that includes studio art, drama, ceramics, and chorus. Then upper school students can choose from these arts offerings:  visual arts, chorus, drama, performing arts, concert band, or orchestra. Students may fulfill their graduation requirement in the arts by selecting from a variety of offerings ranging from studio courses to AP art history.  Advanced students in visual arts are encouraged and assisted in developing portfolios for college admission.

In addition, Seacrest students will continue to have opportunities to perform in numerous musical performances and to show their work in the visual arts. Students interested in theater may take part in an active production schedule of both drama and musicals.

The Music and Drama faculty at Seacrest Country Day School believes that the study of music is an integral component of a liberal arts education.  The classroom program promotes listening skills, develops an aesthetic understanding of many musical styles and periods, and develops each student's creative potential through composition and performance.  Students learn about the fundamentals of music such as form, theory, and acoustics, and acquire music reading and composing skills.  All aspects of music are taught concurrently, so that students learn how these areas are related to and dependent upon each other. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of music to the social, economic, religious, scientific, artistic, and literary issues of each style period.