Fine Arts
Fine Arts
The Arts Department offers classes in both performing and visual arts. The department also offers students the opportunity to take individual voice lessons and instrumental lessons for an additional fee (see our full class descriptions, below, for details) Working spaces include an art studio and gallery, scene shop, costume shop, dance studio, choral rehearsal room, orchestra rehearsal room, two private music instruction studios, and three practice rooms. The school owns eight Steinway pianos, including a nine-foot Steinway concert grand, and two fully operative nineteenth-century pump organs.
Performing Arts
Performing arts classes offer instruction in drama, dance, and music. Classes are taught in Madeira's Chapel/Auditorium (C/A), a building that includes a 590-seat proscenium arch theater, beautifully situated in a wooded area overlooking the Potomac River.
When enrolling in Performing Arts classes, students need to check for:
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Course prerequisites, auditions, or special fees required for enrollment
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Courses offered for academic credit, activities credit, or both. Only one type of credit can be selected. Please be sure to indicate the type of credit at time of enrollment. Activity and academic credits may not be earned at the same time for any performing arts course. Please note there are two kinds of activities credit: activity and activity/PE credit. Activity/PE credit will be given for participation in the winter musical and the dance classes. Any other activity credit offered in this department will earn a student activity (not activity/PE) credit.
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Courses offered yearlong, every trimester, offered in only one trimester, and evening classes.
Visual Arts
The visual arts courses are aimed at the development of a visual vocabulary, visual competency in problem-solving skills, technical understanding and practice, and awareness of art and artists, past and present.
The program of instruction in visual arts is formed by a course sequence starting with an introductory course called Fundamentals of Design. This is a prerequisite for all students taking studio art courses. Yearbook students and AP Art History students are exempt from this requirement.
Classes
- Chamber Orchestra
- Acting I
- Acting II
- Directing
- Fall Play
- Winter Musical
- Technical Theater Activity
- Fundamentals of Design
- Beginning Photography
- Intermediate Photography
- Advanced Photography
- Yearbook and Publications
- Ceramic Studio
- Intermediate Art
- Advanced Studio
- AP Portfolio: 2-D and Drawing
- AP Art History
- Dance Fitness/Dance for PE
- Dance Company I and II, Dance Company and Dance Apprenticeship Company