Arts - Brooks School: Coeducational Private School in North Andover, MA

In the studio or on the stage, arts are at the center of Brooks students’ experience, providing them opportunity to follow their curiosity, discover a new passion and acquire skills.

Our expansive programs in performing and visual arts are designed to promote and develop confidence and creativity.

I promise you, if you continue creating, painting, drawing, singing, playing, acting and sharing your work to build up yourself and those around you, the value will grow beyond what you can see." Grant Moore '24

Student sings on stage, arms outstretched, in long pink skirt.

Drawing student and teacher look in the distance together as the student sketches on an easel.

Inspired creativity

In the classroom, students choose from a wide range of courses, including AP Studio Art, AP Photography and AP 3D and ceramics.

Our proximity to Boston also enables students to take private music lessons with some of the best teachers in New England.

Visual Arts

A young woman in a blue hoodie holds a small white ceramic cup in the foreground, with shelves of pottery supplies visible in the blurred background.

Theater

Students on set of Into the Woods look at harp with green light in background.

Music

Student plays the saxophone on stage with blue light background.

The power of the arts at Brooks lies in its balance of individual attention and ample opportunity. The arts program has been designed to offer the strength of small classes with diverse offerings.

Year 1 = Trying it all!

Arts Exploratory Providing access to the breadth of artistic disciplines within Brooks’ Center for the Arts, students in the third form (grade 9) campus take a year-long exploratory arts course, taught by a team of arts teachers. Each student spends several weeks in teams engaging, collaborating, communicating and creating in different disciplines within the arts. Topics include 2D and 3D visual art, digital media, theater performance, technical theater, instrumental music and singing.

“Arts Initiative” Additionally, Arts Exploratory students enjoy a field trip in collaboration with Brooks' history and English departments focusing on our shared themes of commnity, identity and storytelling. Each fall, the whole grade spends a day at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston discovering ourselves and our commnity thorugh the artifacts and art.

Visit Our Gallery

Attached to Brooks’ library is a 2,300-square-foot gallery in the Robert Lehman Art Center, where Brooks hosts exhibits and allows students to work side by side with internationally recognized artists several times a year.

Exceptional Facilities

Brooks' $28 million state-of-the-art Center for the Arts brings together the visual, musical and performing arts at the center of campus, featuring a nearly 400-seat theater as well as ensemble spaces, studios, music practice rooms, digital media lab and recording studio.

Inside the Center for the Arts