From the desk of Glenn Ballard, Fine Arts Director: At the Brook Hill School, the visual arts are soaring to new heights. Not only are students learning from an award-winning, AP Certified art teacher; and not only are they growing in every facet of the visual arts from drawing to painting to sculpting to photography; […]
During their 6th grade year students go through our fine arts rotation. Students rotate through Drama, Choir, Orchestra, and Visual Art to explore their talents and see what they might be most interested in pursuing for their 7th grade year. This week, our 6th grade drama students have been rehearsing their one act play for […]
Here is a聽little art history about the Pop Art Movement from the 1960’s: everyone knows Andy Warhol, but do you know about Claes Oldenburg? This week, our Art 1 & 2 students learned about Claes Oldenburg who was the premier sculptor of the Pop Art Movement (pop stands for popular). Pop Art was about American […]
Second and Third graders are currently working on a painting inspired by an artist named Wassily Kandinsky – one of the world鈥檚 first abstract artists – born in Moscow in 1866.聽 Before beginning their painting, we looked at several of his artworks and discussed how Kandinsky鈥檚 art changed throughout his career.聽 We decided his earlier […]
Some select members of our聽Lower School, lead by Ila England and Kevin Pierce, gave quite the Christmas spectacular this week! The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a play based on the novel by Barbara Robinson. 聽The story is about the Herdmans who are the worst kids in the history of the world and what happens […]
Our Middle School Choir put on an incredible musical this past weekend at our annual Potatoes & Plays. “Once Upon a Mattress” tells a witty rendition of the princess and the pea. No princess is good enough for the Queen’s young son. The Queen tests each candidate, but the tests are impossible to pass. Finally, […]
Our Middle School drama classes performed two plays at our annual Potatoes and Plays this past weekend. Our 7th graders performed “Epic Fail”, a series of short stories about failure and success. Our 8th grade students performed “Uncool”, a story about a new student at school and his struggle to find acceptance.
Brook Hill Orchestra students preformed at the regional concert at Longview High School last weekend.聽Hannah Windsor, Minseo Kwak, Denise Tan, Christie Kim, James Shipp & Alex Ellis all represented Brook Hill extremely well at the event! Some Middle School students also joined in the 2015 TMEA All-Region Orchestra:聽Colm Conneen, KaNeccia Barnes, Cole Fitzgerald, Hayden Gardner […]
The JV Choir spent their last class time at the home of Mrs. Shirley Smith, mother of Mrs. Ginger Bell singing Christmas carols. Mrs. Smith has been a longtime supporter of the arts at Brook Hill. Our choir room was even dedicated in honor of her and her husband Mr. Fritz Smith. The class sang […]
Join us as we present a beloved classic: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. This Tuesday evening, December 15th at 6:30 in Kimrey Gymnatorium at the Lower School, our students and faculty will preform this Christmas spectacular. 聽 The most incorrigible children in town encounter the story of the birth of Jesus for the first time, […]
Each spring, the聽Congressional Institute聽sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the Artistic Discovery competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated. Students submit entries to their representative鈥檚 office, and panels of district artists select the […]
If you weren’t at our Cadet Singers Dinner on Tuesday night, you truly missed out! We not only heard from a beautiful a cappella group called Clearly Vocal, but also from our incredibly talented Cadet Singers. We enjoyed all kinds of sweet treats, and raised funds for our Cadet Singers to travel in the spring […]