Hockaday Fine Arts is in a word ... Extraordinary!

It has a myriad of offerings ... in fact, there isn't a fine art that doesn't have a fully developed program at Hockaday from dance, to video, to Madrigal Singers, to orchestra, to print making, to computer graphic visualization courses, to photography. It's important that each aspect of an art has a program in which a student can develop through four years of Upper School, take advanced course work, take allied course work, and have an avenue for self-expression. Hockaday has all that and more.

The Fine Arts Program at Hockaday starts with the youngest student in prekindergarten and seeks to awaken her creativity and self-expression by exposing her to all the various art forms, whether it's in painting an African mask, molding clay, or performing onstage. As she matures from Lower School through Grade 12, she will find her personal artistic inspiration among the offerings of the department. The faculty will help her locate the right resources inside or outside the school to fulfill her personal artistic vision. This hands-on experience is balanced with the equivalent of a guided tour through art and the artists who produced it, lead by a faculty whose wealth of knowledge and personal artistry rivals that of many great art museums.

In 1937, Miss Hockaday began The Music Institute with its own building and faculty on the Greenville Avenue campus. Her friend, Josef Levine of Julliard, was head of the conservatory. Both women and men were enrolled for study.