Arts

 

Enhancing and Enriching the Entire Curriculum

At Hewitt, the arts enhance and enrich the entire curriculum. Arts education at Hewitt affords girls the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world by taking creative risks, thinking independently, working collaboratively, and exploring visual and performative art from around the world. Through an array of artistic experiences — classes, rehearsals, dramatic productions, concerts, and exhibitions — Hewitt girls have opportunities to explore and nurture their own creative abilities, and to analyze, challenge, and connect.

 

Hewitt’s enviable proximity to New York’s great cultural institutions enables students to experience and learn from the city’s abundant artistic resources. Whether visiting world-famous art institutions, gathering at local galleries, or observing public works hidden in plain sight, Hewitt students interact with art in a meaningful and intentional way that connects back to their own artistic creation.

Student actors, dancers, musicians, and stage crew members rehearse and perform in a professional theater, working and learning alongside NYC-based musicians and designers from the orchestra pit to the lighting booth.

In addition to annual concerts and exhibitions organized by division, students also have the opportunity to submit works to Hewitt’s arts and literary magazines and national competitions sponsored by Scholastic and Photographer's Forum. Outside of Hewitt, our musicians have the opportunity to perform at the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) Solo Festival.

Performing Arts Offerings

  • Choir
  • Strings
  • Chamber Orchestra
  • Handbells
  • Guitar
  • Drama
  • Introduction to Acting
  • Intermediate/Advanced Acting
  • Dance Composition
  • Dance Technique and Styles
  • Upper School Play
  • Middle and Upper School Musical
  • Middle School Musical
Five actors wear shade of pink on a set of a teenage girl's pink bedroom

Mean Girls: High School Version 

A group of actors in dresses and aprons crowd around an actor wearing a captain's jacket and tri-corner hat

The Pirates of Penzance

An actor in a long purple robe stands in the center of the frame. She is surrounded by fairies and gauzy white sheets.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Rows of lower schools sing in the choir. They are holding their hands to their mouths as if shouting.

Lower School Choir

Clue: On Stage

Rows of students singing at our winter concert. Some wear red and green aprons and headbands.

Lower School Choir

A student in a long sleeve red top dances with two hands above her head

Upper School Dance Technique

Students stand in three rows of risers mid-song. They are wearing white shirts and green plaid skirts.

Upper school choir

Two students sit at a desk on stage

Pilot production of Legally Blonde the Musical Jr.

A group of students in rows dancing with their arms in the air

Eighth grade dance

Two actors sit across from each other at a wooden table covered in drinks

Top Girls

An actor in a pink t shirt and pink flannel stands on a lunch table in the center of the stage with her arms out. She is surrounded by the rest of cast who are looking up or down at her.

Mean Girls: High School Version 

A row of 9 actors wearing dresses and aprons stand posing and looking at the camera

The Pirates of Penzance

The fairy Puck stands in the center of the frame. Behind him are four fairies in hippie clothing with their backs to the camera.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Two students wear party hats and dance on stage

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

A student sits in the theater seats at a soundboard. She is wearing a headset and looking at a large white binder.

Stage crew

Four students sit on a colorful rug playing plastic recorders

Lower school music 

A student in a pink long sleeve top dances with one hand above her head and the other at her waist

Upper School Dance Technique

Groups of actors huddle in three clusters on stage. They face the audience and pretend to put on makeup.

Pilot production of Legally Blonde the Musical Jr.

A blonde actress in a gold dress stands center stage. 5 actresses stand in a row behind her in front of a red screen

Mean Girls: High School Version 

A student in a black long sleeve shirt dances with both arms out and one of her legs in the air

Upper School Dance Technique

A group of fairies dressed in flower crowns and hippie clothing surround a donkey on stage

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Two actors sit on stage in a cardboard %22fort%22 surrounded by blankets and paper bags

Top Girls

Students in white shirts and plaid skirts stand in three rows singing. Their teacher is in the foreground.

Lower school choir

An overhead photo of the middle school strings orchestra performing

Middle School Strings

Clue: On Stage

Upper school singers wearing white shirts and plaid skirts stand on risers singing

Upper School Choir

Six students and their teacher perform handbells

Handbell Choir

A student in the middle of a dance. She is wearing a glittery red top, black leggins, and has one arm and one leg extended in the air

Dance Composition

Middle schoolers stand on risers singing at the spring concert.

Middle School Choir

Two students work in the sound booth. They are wearing headsets with mics.

Mean Girls: High School Version 

Several actors stand with their backs to the camera, looking up at an actor in old fashioned pajamas standing on an elevated platform

The Pirates of Penzance

Students sit in front of black music stands playing the violin and cello

Middle School Strings

Visual Arts Offerings

  • Studio Art
  • Ceramics
  • 3D Art and Design
  • Art and Coding
  • Digital Photography
  • Filmmaking
A self-portrait mosaic made of colorful bits of paper

Lower School Art

Three students sit at a table holding paint brushes and glazing their pottery

Middle School Art

Two students stand outside adjusting settings on a DSLR camera mounted to a tripod

Advanced Filmmaking

A red and orange floral collage made of felt, paper, and paint.

Advanced Studio Art

A drawing of two cars driving across a street. There are large blue and white skyscrapers on either side of the road and random items like a calculator and box of colored pencils floating throughout the image

Advanced Studio Art

Two students wear aprons and paint thick black lines on hot pink paper

Lower School Art

A closeup photo of two faces side by side looking at the camera, tinged in green

Digital Photography

A student in a red sweatshirt holds a pencil sitting at a table covered in art supplies and papers

Advanced Studio Art

Two students sit at a large table painting watercolors of flowers

Middle School Art

A drawing of a bench surrounded by lush green trees. There is a a blue lake and setting sun in the distance.

Advanced Studio Art

A black and white drawing of a girl looking at a blank piece of paper. Blue beams shoot out of her eyes and land on the page

Studio Art

Four students practice using DSLR cameras. One sits on the floor, two stand on the stairs, another stands in the corner

Digital Photography

A student makes a detailed skull out of clay

Ceramics

A student recreates a photo of a hand over an eye using charcoal and pencil

Studio Art

A black and white pencil drawing of a single eye and eyebrow.

Studio Art

Scope and Sequence