BHSEC Chamber Ensemble

The arts program at BHSEC participates in the school’s general mission to provide a challenging, college-level, liberal education to motivated students.  Comprising classes in art history, dance, music, studio art, and theater, the arts are taught in a way that is consistent with BHSEC’s focus on critical thinking as exemplified by the Writing and Thinking tradition at the school. 

BHSEC Studio Art Fundamentals

Through teaching methods that cultivate the ability of students to engage actively with subject matter, content, formal patterns and composition, BHSEC arts classes present intuitive choices, aesthetic judgment, and creative exploration as types of problem solving and as companion methods to logic, reason, and the scientific method.  Through hands-on experience with arts media, rigorous instruction in practical techniques, skill-building and key concepts, as well as practice in the analysis and critique of finished artworks in their cultural and historical contexts, arts classes are designed to provide students with a variety of approaches to the direct experience of sound, speech, vision and movement.

BHSEC Capoeira Ensemble

BHSEC students are encouraged over their 4-year program of studies to explore the approaches opened up by the arts.  After completing the mandatory yearlong Intro Arts course (comprising dance, music, studio art, and theater), students choose their own arts electives.  Whether practical- or appreciation-based, these classes help students understand how fundamental aesthetic concepts — space, time, form and pattern, creativity, affect and meaning — are relevant across a range of disciplines, in the arts and beyond.  In this way, the arts program at BHSEC offers students special ways of thinking and engaging with the world, as well as a forum within which to make coherent statements about our shared lived experience.

BHSEC Electronic Music and Technoculture