Creative Arts Academy

Pursue your passion for the arts at Our Boarding School

Do you have a passion for the arts? Sun Valley Community School’s Creative Arts Academy (CAA) allows Upper School students to pursue
in-depth their passion for either the visual or performing arts in order to foster and grow their potential as artists and performers..

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Visual Arts

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About the CAA

Creative Arts Academy Specialties

Performing Arts

Students will be introduced to a wide range of techniques aimed at building their “actor’s toolkit.” This is an essential set of skills that gives the actor a tried and true method of working on material and collaborating with other theatermakers. With a foundation in the Stanislavski system, actors will sample Meisner technique, Practical Aesthetics and ensemble devising, all in an effort to answer the question: who am I as an artist? This program is also designed both to prepare students for the college audition process, and help them make informed choices about which college program they may want to attend if they choose to explore B.F.A. performing arts programs.

Visual Arts

In the Visual Arts discipline, students will develop their facility with the techniques and processes of art as a means of expressing emotions and conceptual ideas. Although students may concentrate in one medium, students will be encouraged to explore artistic forms. The program is designed so that students will develop a portfolio and artist statement that they can use in the college application process either for B.F.A. visual arts programs or as supplemental materials.

Music

In the Music discipline, students will develop technique and facility on their instrument or voice as well as proficiency in reading, rhythm and various aspects of musicality. Students will gain experience working either within an ensemble or as a solo performer. By the beginning of their Senior year, students on this track should be competitive for entrance into college-level music programs (note that reaching this level is seldom accomplished without individual instruction outside of school programs).

CAA Voices

The CAA has allowed me to hone my craft and learn so much more than I ever would have without the amazing classes and opportunities I have done through the CAA. Not only is the CAA full of amazing opportunities, for it's also a hive of creative thinkers who I love talking to and learning from.

Emma D. '22

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