St. Joan of Arc offers a strong fine arts program at all grade levels. Beginning in Kindergarten, all students attend art and music two times a week, or once a week for an extended period.
Students are given the opportunity to learn about the arts through technical skill development, technology, field trips, resident artists and musicians and through performance.
Growing the Arts at SJA
Our sixth annual Growing the Arts event was Saturday, August 20th from 7 to 10 p.m. We had great support from several organizations. Food was provided by The Jazz Kitchen and Indy’s Upper Crust. Our ticket sales, art sale and silent auction helped raise more than $2,000 to help buy band equipment!
SJA Fine Arts Program
Art Shows
Every student at SJA will have art work on display at 2 art exhibits per year. The first art exhibit is our Special Person’s Day art show. Family friends and grandparents, aunts and uncles are invited to attend a special mass and then enjoy refreshments and art in Doyle Hall.
Students will also have art work on display in our end of the year, Cultural Arts Celebration. Each year a different country is studied and integrated into all subject areas and then celebrated with a show in May. Students are exposed to other cultures food, geography, history, art, music and dance. Art work and musical performances revolve around this theme.
SJA students are also exposed to art shows out side the school, including coffee house shows at Hubbard and Cravens Coffee House and at Starbucks. Student art can also be displayed at the State House, Children’s Museum and local businesses.
Technology and the Fine Arts
We are very pleased to promote technology in our fine arts courses. Students are exposed to the PC and MAC computers in both music and visual arts. Students work with Garage Band in music class to write and record music as well as produce student CD’s.
In the visual arts students are exposed to Photoshop and Illustrator as well as exposure to careers in Graphic Design.
All students at SJA participate in Technology class and will begin to help develop web pages at the intermediate and middle school level.
Performing Arts
At St. Joan of Arc students are exposed early to the performing arts. All students will sing, dance, act or play a musical instrument in a show as early as PRE-K. Performing Arts are essential in developing students self-confidence and social relationship skills.
Beginning in Pre-K, students learn how to play instruments are introduced to a new type of instrument each year. In 3rd grade students begin playing the recorder and continue through 4th grade. Our 4th and 5th graders will also play bells and keyboard. 5th graders learn the guitar and 6-8th grade students can participate in the Middle School Band or Choir.
All middle school students will participate in some way through acting, singing, set design or stage craft in our school musical.
