Fine Arts

The Fine Arts at CCS

All art is a gift from God. He gives us our aesthetic standard for what is true, good, and beautiful. We are seeking to promote the arts for Christ’s glory. We will use the gifts that He has given us to present and perform to those inside and outside our community with the hope of drawing others to the beauty of His creation.

The arts are a vibrant and rich expression of God’s creation in all its joy, sorrow, tragedy, and comedy. CCS students may study music (band, chorus, music appreciation), theatre (acting, directing, playwriting, set design, stage management, sound, and lighting design), and visual arts (drawing, painting, printing, photography, graphic design).

Band students regularly audition for, and perform with, regional and state orchestra and bands. The band classes hold two concerts a year, both in the Logic and Rhetoric schools. Almost half of the upper school performs with the Concert Choirs and a select group of students tour and perform with the Chamber Choir. Past tours have included trips to Washington, New York, and New Orleans. Both Logic and Rhetoric school choirs hold two full concerts a year.

Visual Arts students send art pieces into the community for competition and display and compete for the ACCS Blakey Prize for Fine Arts, a nationwide competition. We currently do an annual art contest and Gallery night to showcase the work of our students.

Drama students present several one-act competition pieces, in addition to our two main stage productions each year. Productions consist of both classical and modern work and have included pieces by Shakespeare, Wilde, Brontë, Wodehouse, Poe, and Austen, as well as Wilder, Saroyan, and Kaufman and Hart. Both Logic and Rhetoric school Drama students participate in the North Carolina Theatre Conference Regional Play Festival, where many of our pieces are student-directed. Drama students are encouraged to participate in every aspect of the production experience, from play writinging to set design. Students have had the opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom, where they visited Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon and participated in acting workshops in London at the Globe Theatre.

Arts students have participated in regional, state, and national arts competitions and have won multiple awards in every discipline.

CCS arts alumni have gone on to have successful careers in film (acting, writing, directing, and cinematography), costume and fashion design, writing and publishing, theatre (writing, acting, directing), and music (composition and performance).

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