The Arts
With 24 different classes offered in the performing and visual arts and extracurricular organizations such as the Art Club and Spring Musical, Wilson Hall demonstrates its commitment to the importance of arts education. In fact, the S.C. Independent School Association recognized Wilson Hall as having the most successful performing and visual arts program in the state.
High school students have a choice from 17 courses in visual arts, including four Advanced Placement courses. Our campus has three art studios for instruction, complete with a kiln room for ceramics. Hundreds of pieces of student work are on display in nearly every building on campus in special display cases and on the walls, and the annual Art Showcase features the work of every art student.
Students have formal music instruction starting in the three-year-old preschool and visit the lower school music studio once a week through the 5th grade, and 6th & 7th graders take theater for a quarter. Our campus has a music studio, a multipurpose room with a stage for smaller productions, and a large stage in one of the gymnasiums for larger programs. Smaller music programs are also performed in the Founders Chapel.
Whether through music class in preschool, theater class in the sixth grade, or ceramics class in the tenth grade, students are exposed to the arts at every grade level.
A student cannot be truly well-rounded without a foundation in the performing and visual arts, and it is through the arts that students are encouraged to express themselves and are inspired to discover new talents.
