Arts

The Arts are a powerful medium for self-expression, communication, and appreciation for the world around us.

Whether students are interested in musical pursuits, visual arts, or theater, we offer a variety of outlets for students to explore their passion. Cristo Rey Jesuit offers several electives and extracurricular opportunities for the students' to express their artistic creativity.

Arts Curriculum

Music Creative Strategies

In a rigorous and creative environment, students will learn the basics of the creative process by improvising, creating, composing and recording music. We will explore how music is structured, how those structures carry cultural significance, how the language of music works, and how to document and manipulate sound.

Using the software Ableton Live, students will spend Q1/Q2 accumulating skills and knowledge in both general music and Ableton Live. In groups, we will create small vignettes that explore rhythm, melody, found sound, genre, music for film, etc. In these projects, students will learn how to create, edit, collaborate, and expand ideas.

Ethnomusicology

In a performative environment, students will learn about the language and performance of music… and will then perform it. By studying archetypal rhythms and shared musical patterns from around the world, students will come to an introductory knowledge of how music impacts culture. We will perform and study music from West Africa, the Caribbean,Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Japan, the Middle East and India; quarterly research papers will be done on current and historical artists.

Each class will perform for the CRJ community and the community at large at different times, and at different locations, throughout the school year.

Art Portfolio I

Art Portfolio II

Young Artists of Color

This course will study the voice of social activism through the works of burgeoning artists from underrepresented populations. Through history, theory, and application students will learn how cultural shifts can be initiated, through the arts. Students will learn to develop their own original work that connects to their identity and presents their voice in non-linguistic forms.

Arts Extracurriculars

Art Club

Art Club

To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new “epiphanies” of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world.

Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to artists

Contact Us

For more information about Clubs & Organizations, please email:

Jerome Washington

Student Life Coordinator

jwashington@cristoreyjesuit.org

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