Arts

Our Visual and Performing Arts Department is the hub of culture at Parish Episcopal School. Our dedicated team of professionally trained teachers brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the department. At Parish, we know that a well-rounded student is a student who has experienced the arts.

From pre-kindergarten through upper school, Parish students are encouraged to express themselves through a variety of visual and performing arts. Parish offers its lower school students a chance to explore music, colors, art materials and techniques, shapes, patterns, and textures. As students move into the upper elementary and middle school grades, they are offered an introduction to theatre, art, band, dance, and music from different cultures, as well as theory concepts. Students also receive continued choral training and are invited to audition for school productions. Upper School students have the opportunity to practice the crafts of photography, ceramics, dance, speech, debate, band, studio art and sculpture, as well have several performance venues throughout the year. 

A highlight each year for the entire Visual and Performing Arts program is the Independent School Association of the Southwest Fine Arts Festival.  Our students, from hip-hop dancers to painters to musicians proudly represent Parish at this outstanding showcase of visual and performing arts.  The event is held in a different region of the Southwest each spring.  Recent venues have included The Kinkaid School in Houston in 2009, Wichita Collegiate in Kansas in 2008 and The Greenhill School in Dallas in 2007.  This coming year the festival will be held at St. Mark’s School of Texas.