Fine Arts: Visual and Performing

The Fine and Performing Arts at Saint Joseph High School offer courses and co-curricular opportunities where students can foster their creativity through self-expression. Students embrace the importance of the arts in the totality of the human experience, often displayed in student exhibitions or performances.

Courses

Visual Arts

The primary focus of the visual arts courses is studio production in order to develop student creativity through self-expression. The Fine Arts Department offers semester-long courses in Intro to 2D Art, Ceramics, Digital Design, Drawing, Painting, and Photography, with the potential for advanced students to take an AP Art class.

Performing Arts

Performing arts courses help students express themselves musically and reap the many benefits of creating and learning to read music. Music uses the brain in specific ways to encourage communication between the halves and help those who study it to think in ways that encourage innovation and things from a variety of perspectives. The Fine Arts Department offers semester-long music courses, including Concert Band, Orchestra, Chorus, and Piano & Electric Keyboard. Additional information about the Music Program can be found here.

Co-curricular opportunities

Fine Arts

Performing arts

Recogntions

Each year the Scholastic Art Awards celebrate works judged based on originality, technical skill, and emergence of a personal voice or vision. Saint Joseph High School students submit their works to the regional Scholastic Art competition, where judges can award a Gold Key, Silver Key, or Honorable Mention designation for works of art.

in 2026, saint joseph students amassed 115 awards in the scholastic art competition, with 29 gold keys, 37 silver keys, and 49 honorable mentions.