The Arts Department at Gann Academy encompasses a full range of academic courses, clubs and performing organizations. All of this activity is dedicated to the following goals:

1. Providing the opportunity for students already committed to an art form to develop their skills and artistic vision under the tutelage of working, professional artists.
2. Providing the opportunity and inspiration for those not already involved in the arts to discover their own creativity, and experience the power of the world's masterpieces.
3. For all students to leave our school having gained a level of cultural literacy that will allow them to address the human experience with the open heart and mind required to be an informed and compassionate citizen of our strange and complicated world.

Students are required to take at least eight trimesters in the arts over four years, but are free to choose which courses they take.

Scheduled events include three productions by the Red Curtain, our drama club. One of these is a festival of one-act plays, produced and directed by students. L'Hadlik, our winter Arts Festival, is scheduled to coincide with Chanukah. It includes performances and presentations from all the arts organizations and displays of work from the visual art classes. In the spring, during Exploration Week, there are opportunities for students to engage in arts projects intensively for five full days. Our music composition students present a recital of their work at the end of the year.

Unscheduled, impromptu happenings include displays of work in our gallery, occasional spontaneous lunchtime concerts, and more. In addition, performing groups such as the Chorus, Jazz Ensemble, and Israeli dance group have gone out into the community to perform.

At Gann Academy we want students to be able to use use the arts to explore the world around them. And we want those so inclined to use the arts to explore and express their inner lives.