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 musical ensembles perform at the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) Solo Instrument 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
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

Three students hold ukuleles. One is smiling directly at the camera.

Lower school music

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

Upper School Dance Technique

An actor stands on stage mid-song wearing a bright pink dress

Pilot production of Legally Blonde the Musical Jr.

Students stand in rows singing with their arms up above their heads

Lower 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

A student makes a note on her sheet music while holding her violin

Middle school strings

A group of dancers dressed in black move as a cluster on stage

Upper school dance

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

Top Girls

Clue: On Stage

A large cast of student actors mid-jump on stage

The SpongeBob Musical: Youth Edition

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

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

Upper school choir

An overhead shot of middle school strings players and their conductor

Middle school strings

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

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

Upper School Dance Technique

Three students and a teacher play cellos in a music classroom

Middle school strings

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

Two students in black sweatshirts huddle over a sound board backstage

Stage crew

A close up of a student playing the cello

Middle school strings

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

Lower school choir

Clue: On Stage

Visual Arts Offerings

  • Studio Art
  • Ceramics
  • 3D Art and Design
  • Art and Coding
  • Digital Photography
  • Filmmaking
Students sit on the sidewalk drawing in white chalk on black paper

Second graders create a collaborative mural with artist Katie Merz

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

Advanced Filmmaking

Two students have their back to the camera. A third sits facing the camera tracing a circle on large white paper.

Lower school art

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

Digital Photography

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

Two students sit at a table covered in art supplies and materials. One is turned toward the camera and smiling

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 grid of colorful self-portrait collages against blue backgrounds

Lower school self-portraits 

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

Studio Art

A student works on a colorful drawing of a flower against a black background

Studio Art 

Scope and Sequence