Arts - Eagle Christian Academy

Choir

ECA appreciates the impact music plays in our everyday lives and strives to create an environment of worshipful excellence in the classroom. We provide an opportunity for students to explore choral, classical, and contemporary music through vocal performance. Students perform in a fall and spring show each year, participate in service projects, display their individual and collective talents at our annual Variety Show, and, the culmination of the year's practice, compete in the TAPPS 1A Choir Competition in both sight reading and choral performance.

Art

ECA appreciates the beauty in God's creation and the importance of artistic expression. Art education is a highlight of the ECA experience. Within the art program, students develop and expand visual literacy skills using critical thinking, imagination, and the senses to observe and explore the world around them. We teach our children how to communicate original ideas while using a variety of media and appropriate skills so they might learn, understand, and apply the elements of art, principles of design, and expressive qualities. Students also learn to analyze artistic styles, historical periods, and a variety of cultures to develop a global awareness and appreciation for diversity. Lastly, students will learn to make informed judgments and reasoned evaluations by analyzing artworks of self and others.

Upper School

Beginning in middle school, art students learn how to develop elements and principles of design in their original artwork using a variety of techniques explored throughout the year. ECA offers three different art courses based on level of experience: Art 1, Advanced Art, and AP Art.

Art 1 allows students to create original compositions also using multiple explored techniques. Art 1 students will analyze elements and principles of design in artworks, forming reflections and evaluations of artwork throughout the year.

Advanced art serves as a preparation course for AP (college credit course) Art and Design. Advanced art students will develop extended investigations and experimentations to better utilize skills acquired in previous art courses. They will further communicate verbally and visually complex ideas that can be analyzed and evaluated extensively.

Lastly, AP Art is a college level course offered at ECA. AP Art students will investigate a visual theme or idea throughout the year. They will also create sketches, artworks, and revisions of artworks and ideas in order to develop a portfolio of work, along with an artist statement. No matter the course, we hope each student can walk away with a deeper appreciation of artistic expression and value creations of God, others, and themselves.

List of Annual Events and Competitions:

Jr. Visual Arts and Scholastic Event (VASE) Art Competition (Middle School)
VASE Art Competition (High School)
TAPPS Art Competition
Fine Arts Show
Community or school events (TBA)

Lower School

The Lower School Art Program introduces students to the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design as technical building blocks to all aspects of artmaking. Combined with the use of a wide variety of quality materials and tools, students practice skills and processes that require problem solving, perseverance, and discipline. The result of this strategy is a “frame worthy” piece, and an “Art Talk” summarizing the students written reflection and evaluation of both the process and the product. These thinking and making skills not only enhance the art making process, but also support student performance in traditional academic subject areas. The subject matter of the products is varied and springs from children’s literature, cultural and geographic regions, famous artists, and everyday life. Undergirding the program is an idea that humans, as Image Bearers, are by nature creative makers.

Theater Arts

We all have the ability to create: it's one way that we reflect God’s character.

All students in the theatre arts will learn the fundamentals of theatre and performance, as well as interpersonal and emotional skills such as collaboration, self-confidence, and empathy. They will do this through imaginative play, character design and development, performance, and simple conversational exercises as well. They will have to opportunity to showcase these skills at various performances and events throughout the year.

The secondary classes will focus other aspects of theatre as well, including everything from scene studies and monologues, pantomime, and improv, to introduction to technical theatre, script writing, directing, and the one act play.