Department
Welcome to the Newtown High School Fine Arts Department. Amazing things happen here. Students are involved in quality award-winning programs that provide them opportunities to showcase their talents and leadership. Our department is a welcoming place in which all students can participate. Students become part of a warm and supportive community, work as a team, and develop a family bond. Our classes will take you wherever you are to help you grow and move forward in your artistic endeavors. Opportunities abound – visit museums, attend professional concerts and Broadway shows, travel to festivals and competitions. The creativity and innovation that you develop in the arts are not only life skills but those valued by colleges and businesses. Try a course and explore – you may discover a new passion.
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Michelle Hiscavich, Director of Visual and Performing Arts
“The arts can help students become tenacious, team-oriented problem solvers who are confident and able to think creatively.”
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Arne Duncan
U.S. Secretary of Education
2009-2016
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“Creativity is seeing what everyone else
has seen, and thinking
what no one else has thought.”
Albert Einstein
THE ARTS MATTER
"There is a practical reason for music education: it teaches people to think, to solve problems, to take risks, to think independently, to be an entrepreneur and innovator. The virtues of music education are the virtues of free enterprise in general and of a high tech, knowledge-based society in particular: flexibility, adaptability, inventiveness, even playfulness."
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William E. LaMothe
CEO, Xeorox Company
UPCOMING EVENTS
