CWA is home to exceptional visual and performing arts programs featuring a breadth of courses and creative opportunities facilitated by talented faculty. Students are encouraged to participate throughout their Upper School careers to achieve deep learning and appreciation for the arts. All students enjoy at least one year each of visual and performing arts courses. 

The Visual Arts Center features spacious classrooms for ceramics, printmaking, painting, and more, while the Language and Performing Arts Center has both large and private practice rooms, a digital music mixing studio, and a modern black box theater. 

Our program is remarkable in providing every Middle School student the opportunity to experience both performing and visual arts. At every grade level, students take visual arts classes as a regular part of their schedule. Courses allow exploration of many techniques and experience with several media we teach at CWA, including drawing, painting, clay sculpture, and digital art. A full range of opportunities are also available in the performing arts. Depending on their interests, students study theater production, drama in a workshop format, or join the choir, orchestra, and/or band. 

For Lower School students, art is very much about process, not product. Our youngest students explore multiple media and grow as artists in our dedicated art studio. They also feel the rhythm and join together in song in the music room. Beginning in preschool, students enjoy time studying art and music throughout the week.

Beginning in first grade and continuing through the Upper School, private piano lessons are offered on campus during or after the school day as an enrichment program.