The Arts Department at Wakefield offers a number of courses and opportunities for students to pursue their passion in the visual arts.
The small teacher-student ratio in our arts classes allows the faculty time to work very closely with each student, and to look within the school as well as within the community to find creative challenges and opportunities for each student.
Beginning in Pre-Kindergarten, Wakefield students look forward to coming to the Arts Building for a progressive curriculum that builds through the Lower, Middle and into the Upper School. The curriculum allows for hands-on painting, drawing, three-dimensional clay and sculpture, masks, and stained glass, to name a few.
Our faculty, well known and respected artists in their own right, seek and offer students the opportunity to enter their works in contests, from the Congressional Art Show, sponsored by our local Congressman, Frank Wolf, to the Neighborhood Art Show right in The Plains.