Convent & Stuart Hall offers a rich and varied K–12 Arts Education. Our Visual Art Department develops students’ creative potential, encouraging them to be versatile, resourceful and reflective while preparing them to be future artists, designers and problem solvers.

The Visual Art Department is committed to serving a generalist curriculum that encompasses the fundamental disciplines and resources of the visual arts. Each student is educated not only in specific disciplines, but also in the complex interrelationships of all visual vocabularies. The visual art curriculum lends to the acquisition of communication skills, the development of critical perspective and the ability to work with a variety of materials and art media.

Throughout their K–12 arts training, students become socially aware, historically grounded, creative practitioners. They are taught to be critical analyzers of the world of contemporary visual communications, art and the culture at large. In a world with increasing creative demands, students prepared with a strong education in art and design alongside broad experience of art making and sharing offer something unique to the greater community and to the world.
 

2023–2024 Artist in Residence

Caleb Duarte

Last year's artist in residence, Caleb Duarte, worked closely with students on a project called Moving Monuments. This project helped students explore human migration and the forces that guide and protect us on this sometimes precarious journey of life.

2022–2023 Artist in Residence

Ana Teresa Fernández

In My Skin is the culmination of a yearlong community art collaboration with Ana Teresa Fernandez. The project began with workshops wherein high school students learned how to create skin tones using primary colors. Their color theory skills were shared with over 400 students in Grades K-4 and other community members. In exploring the somatic image of race, each student was invited to experience the physicality of their skin tone by mixing colors and painting tiles.