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Creativity Takes Center Stage

At Hawbridge, the arts give students opportunities to explore creativity, develop confidence, collaborate with others, and communicate ideas in meaningful ways.

Through visual arts, music, theater, performance, and hands-on creative experiences, students are encouraged to take risks, discover new interests, and share their unique perspectives with the school community.

Whether stepping onto the stage, performing with fellow musicians, developing an artistic portfolio, or working behind the scenes, students learn that creative expression is another powerful way to grow.

Creative Expression at Hawbridge

The arts support creativity, communication, collaboration, and personal growth.

Hawbridge students explore the arts through classroom instruction, rehearsals, performances, exhibitions, and creative projects that invite them to develop both technical skills and individual expression.

Students learn to listen, respond, revise, solve problems, support one another, and contribute to work that is larger than any one person. These experiences build confidence while helping students find new ways to understand themselves and the world around them.

Hawbridge students participating in a theater class.

Theater at Hawbridge

Theater invites students to step into new roles, tell stories, and build something meaningful together.

Students may explore acting, performance, stagecraft, theatrical storytelling, and technical production through theater coursework and school productions.

Auditions for Hawbridge productions are open to students whether or not they are currently enrolled in a theater class, creating opportunities for more students to participate, develop confidence, and become part of the creative process.

Student performances take place in campus spaces including Huth Commons at the Lower School and the Upper School Theater, where families and members of the Hawbridge community can gather to celebrate students’ work.

HHawbridge students performing together on stage.

Performance Highlights

Every production tells a different story, but each one reflects the creativity, collaboration, and dedication of Hawbridge student performers.

Poster for Hawbridge’s production of Peter and the Starcatcher.

Peter and the Starcatcher

Presented in March in the Upper School Theater.

Poster for Hawbridge’s production of The Curious Savage.

The Curious Savage

Presented in November in Huth Commons.

Poster for Hawbridge’s production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Presented in April in Huth Commons.

Visual Arts

Students develop artistic skills while discovering their own creative interests and perspectives.

Hawbridge offers introductory, intermediate, and advanced visual arts experiences. Students explore artistic techniques, materials, observation, experimentation, and personal expression while building confidence in their creative choices.

Advanced students may focus their work around individual interests and portfolio development. Hawbridge graduates have gone on to continue their artistic education at colleges and art schools.

Students Explore

  • Foundational and advanced artistic techniques
  • Creative problem-solving and experimentation
  • Individual interests and personal expression
  • Portfolio development
  • Opportunities to share and reflect on their work

Arts & Theater

Creativity Takes Center Stage

Music at Hawbridge

Music gives students another way to collaborate, communicate, perform, and contribute to the life of the school.

Through classroom study, ensemble work, concerts, and special performances, students develop musicianship, confidence, focus, and an appreciation for creating something together

Seasonal concerts and community performances give students opportunities to share their work with classmates, families, and the broader Hawbridge community. One such event, the Winter Music Concert, featured students in grades 6–12 performing in Huth Commons.

Hawbridge student musicians performing together.

Beyond the Stage

Creative learning can take many forms.

Hawbridge students also explore communication, storytelling, teamwork, and media through hands-on projects that extend beyond traditional visual and performing arts.

Whether students are recording, presenting, designing, writing, performing, or collaborating on a shared project, these experiences encourage them to think creatively and communicate with purpose.

Hawbridge students collaborating during a radio and media activity.