Summit’s fine arts programs teach the history, masters, and techniques of visual and performing arts and provide an outlet for students to express talent and creativity.
Visual Arts
Elementary Art
Elementary art at Summit teaches students about art history, art masters and art technique. They learn principles of design such as subject, background, shape, color, texture and form. In addition, a wide variety of mediums are used to include paint, pencil, and clay. Within the school year, students create pottery, practice weaving, and produce works on paper. Varied activities allow students to learn and create at age and skill-appropriate levels.
High School & Intermediate Art Classes
Studio art classes for 6th – 12th grade students are popular electives at Summit. From Art 1 to college-level Pre-AP and AP Drawing Portfolio classes, a range of classes are offered to grow student understanding of art history, appreciation of styles, and ability to execute techniques. Hands-on work is done with a variety of mediums, including paint, pencil, collage, cels, acrylic plexiglass layers, paper, canvas and more.
Visual Arts Events
Students have the opportunity to compete at our annual school Art Festival and can advance on to the ACSI District Art Competition. We have had many students received high-level awards including Best of Show at the National Congressional Art Competition with their artwork displayed in the Congressional Hall.
Performing Arts
Theater
The Summit Christian Academy theater program is a thriving program that offers 5th -12th grade students the ability to explore their God-given talents in the theater arts. We offer engaging theater courses as well as a variety of performance and competition opportunities. Students build self-confidence, increase self-awareness and gain skills in collaboration and cooperation by working to create theater.
Course work covers improvisation, character development, theater history, stage movement, voice/diction, pantomime, film acting, and solo, duet and ensemble stage acting. Stagecraft students learn set, costume and makeup design. Performance and competition opportunities include full-length play productions and musicals.
Band
Students learn the techniques of playing band instruments, working to develop tonal quality and technical facility. Emphasis is placed on proper breathing, tone control, reading skills, development of the embouchure, intonation, articulation, and development of range. Students develop individual and group performance skills playing in the drum line, spring and fall concerts, and special events.
Choir
The Summit Christian Academy Elementary, Intermediate and High School Choirs are growing and exciting parts of the fine arts department. They are designed to give students the opportunity to gain technical music knowledge, while working towards developing their vocal skills. This is accomplished through learning to sing in multiple voice ranges, understanding and getting to know their voice through breath training and warm-ups, developing the ability to stylize their voice for various music genres, and understanding how to interpret and deliver a song’s message.
Choir students have numerous opportunities to perform on campus at chapel, in concerts and at special events as well as in the community, such as singing at National Day of Prayer observances, professional sporting events, and more.
SCA encourages students to be a strong light in the world by utilizing the power of high quality meaningful artwork in all varieties of traditional and modern mediums so that they might impact the world through their art and lives.