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Explore Your Potential

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  • Discover Your Passion

At Hutchison, the arts actively engage girls in critical thinking and problem solving experiences. As they learn to imagine new possibilities through the fine arts, girls are better able to create changes in their artwork, school work, and the world around them as they voice opinions, explore personal concerns, and produce dynamic solutions to creative problems.

Dance, choir, orchestra, theatre, visual arts, and digital media and communications are part of the early childhood, lower school, middle and upper school curriculum as a way to explore the human experience and its cultures. The fine arts curriculum is aligned with coursework across all divisions and grade levels. Girls wanting to continue building skills in the arts throughout upper school and beyond can advance to pre-professional levels with the Certificate of Arts, awarded at graduation, along with the Hutchison diploma.
In an environment that embraces individuality, collaboration, and inclusion, the depth of instruction and vast fine arts offerings demonstrate Hutchison’s commitment to providing the highest level of art instruction for developing a girl's expressive voice.

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  • A Tradition of Excellence

    Hutchison students’ longstanding tradition of garnering awards in the prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is a testament to the quality of the School’s fine arts offerings. One of the longest –running recognition programs for creative teens in the country, the Scholastic program is also the largest source scholarships for young artists and writers. In the performing arts, students in Hutchison’s renowned theatre program are consistently nominated in the regional Orpheum awards.

    Recent Award-Winning Pieces

  • The Loveless Arts Academy Extends Art Beyond the School Day

    The Mary Miles Loveless Arts Academy at Hutchison, an extended day and weekend enrichment program, is a valuable resource for girls who want to expand their proficiency in the fine arts beyond the school day. The genesis for what is now known as the Center for Excellence, the arts academy is staffed by Hutchison’s outstanding fine arts faculty and other arts educators who are working artists in their field. The arts academy is available to students of all ages with an interest in visual arts, music, theatre, dance, or digital design and communications from introductory workshops to pre-professional training. The arts academy supports and supplements Hutchison’s regular fine arts offerings with classes ranging from printmaking and pottery to filmmaking and play production.

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    Tracey Zerwig Ford 

    Arts & Community Engagement Director

Fine Arts News

Experience

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  • Life at Hutchison

    Learn more about the Hutchison experience and why a girl's school is your daughter's best opportunity to excel.
  • Arts Beyond the School Day Arts Beyond the School Day
    Arts academy and other offerings in CFE extend Hutchison’s curriculum to truly allow girls to discover their passion.
  • Plenty of Space to Create Plenty of Space to Create
    Hutchison’s campus includes four music studios, two dance studios, a 600-seat main stage, two art gallery spaces, a film and studio and much more.
  • Live at Hutchison! Live at Hutchison!
    Our fine arts program and state-of-the-art Wiener Theater have launched careers in the performing arts as well as set design, sound, and lighting.

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1740 Ridgeway Road
Memphis, Tennessee 38119
Phone: (901) 761-2220

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Hutchison is the leading private girls school in Memphis for ages 2 years old through twelfth grade.