Garrison Forest places high value and strong emphasis on the Arts, offering substantive, varied, and sequential programs in the Visual Arts, Dance, Music, and Theater. With many curricular and co-curricular choices among the Arts, all students have opportunities to discover talents and develop skills at every level.

The Arts are a vital and dynamic presence on campus, adding dimension and enrichment to our life as a community and enhancing all areas of learning. Working with an outstanding Arts faculty, students experience artistic and intellectual growth, personal fulfillment, joy, and meaning in the creative process.

Garrison Forest offers exceptional Arts facilities:

• The Hathaway Fine and Performing Arts Center, which centralizes the Arts on campus and houses a recital hall, a choral rehearsal room, music classrooms, teaching studios and practice rooms, two magnificent art studios with cathedral ceilings, an art history room, and facilities for sculpture and jewelry-making. The building's photography studio includes a traditional wet lab darkroom as well as a digital lab, 13 enlargers, and a large workroom with computer workstations
• Art studios in the new, LEED-certified Middle School and Livingston (The Lower Division) are modern, inviting, and well-equipped for varied projects
• The 401-seat Garland Theater with its new, state-of-the-art sound and light board offer performance and class space for theater students and various divisional productions, as well as dance performance space
• Dancers have classes and rehearsals in the Dance Studio in the modern, collegiate-level Campus Center