Fine Arts

Learn. Our music course offerings start at a basic level and work up to advanced courses in theory, composition, and performance, and the option of a music minor.

Create. Make music by joining the HSC Chorus, the Instrumental Ensemble, The Acousticals, or taking private lessons.

Listen. The Hampden Sydney Music Series presents and hosts free public concerts throughout the academic year.

Learn. A cross-disciplinary program, the Theatre Department offers classes and independent studies ranging from beginning to advanced acting, set and light design, stagecraft, playwriting, and directing.

Create. The Theatre Department produces two main-stage productions a year. Be part of a theatre production each semester!

Create. Taught with an eye to developing an appreciation for the fine arts as well as to developing individual skills, studio courses include beginning and intermediate drawing, color and 2D design, portraiture,  painting, and beginning and intermediate photography. 

Learn. Classes in art history buttress the Fine Arts, as well as Classics, Religion, and History programs. 

Observe. The Gallery in the Viar-Christ Center for the Arts and the Esther Atkinson Museum on campus features work of visiting artists, faculty, students and professionals throughout the year.

The Viar-Christ Center for the Arts, renovated in 2017 to provide facilities for Music and Visual Arts, has newly designed classrooms and studios, a rehearsal hall, art gallery, and a completely new heating and ventilation system, acoustically-treated spaces, restrooms, and an elevator. Facilities for the Fine Arts Theatre Program are housed across Via Sacra in Johns Auditorium.