Arts
The School feels that exposure to the Arts is integral to a complete education at Nichols, and has therefore devoted significant resources to the Arts facilities and program.{http://www.nicholsschool.org/arts} The 480-seat Flickinger Performing Arts Center is the centerpiece of the performing arts department, while new visual arts studios support course offerings in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video and graphic art.
The Arts are promoted as a serious course of study and the School requires that all students engage in some form of participation. Artistic achievement is highlighted not only in plays and exhibitions, but also in morning meetings, where students often share their talents with the rest of the school.Students are encouraged to use the Arts as a vehicle through which to find their own voices. In addition to studying and performing the work of renowned artists, original student work is featured on the walls of every building on this campus, and on the floorboards of every stage. Students have the opportunity to compose music, write plays, choreograph dances, make their own films or curate their own art opening.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay—in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)