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Arts News & Calendar

Each year, Battle Ground Academy's Fine Arts Department hosts more than 20 events, from in-class performances to holiday programs, instrumental concerts, drama productions, and art shows. Parents, grandparents, alumni, special friends, and community members fill the seats and galleries to enjoy our students' talent and creativity. 

Upper School Musical: "Guys and Dolls" 

Battle Ground Academy’s Upper School Theatre Department will be presenting "Guys and Dolls" at the school's theatre in The Sondra Morris and Robert N. Moore, Jr. ‘52 Center for Arts and Entrepreneurship. Performances are set for April 25-27.

Complimentary tickets are available to reserve below.

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ARTS NEWS

Inquiry-Based Self-Portraits

No matter what grade you teach, you get a certain reaction when you tell students, "You are drawing faces today"–and typically, it's not cheers of joy and excitement. Creating art is a vulnerable act, never more so than when you are asked to draw a self-portrait.

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Two BGA Middle School Art Students Earn Awards in 2023 Scholastic Art Competition

Three works, created by two BGA art students, earned awards in this year's regional 2023 Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Competition. 

The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the most prestigious recognition initiative for creative teens and the largest source of scholarships for young artists.

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Seven BGA Upper School Art Students Earn Awards in 2023 Scholastic Art Competition

Ten works, created by seven BGA art students, earned awards in this year's regional 2023 Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Competition. 

The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the most prestigious recognition initiative for creative teens and the largest source of scholarships for young artists.

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BGA’s Upper School to present ‘The Mouse that Roared'

Battle Ground Academy’s Upper School Drama Department will be presenting “The Mouse that Roared,”adapted for the stage in 1963 by Christopher Sergel, at the school’s Sondra Morris and Robert N. Moore Jr. ‘52 Center for Arts and Entrepreneurship.

Performances are set for Sept. 29 and Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. and Oct. 2 at 2 p.m.

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Third Quarter Mary Campbell Easel Award Goes To Junior Gillian Biasden

Join us in congratulating junior Gillian Baisden on being selected to receive the third quarter Mary Campbell Easel Award for 2021-22! Gillian discovered her love for art at an early age and has worked diligently through the years improving a variety of her artistic skills. Specifically, Gillian has been adamant in figuring out how to master colored pencil and has come very close to doing this as evidenced by this rendering. Gillian is currently in Honors Studio Art working toward her AP Art and Design portfolio for next year.

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Ten BGA Art Students Earn Awards in 2022 Scholastic Art Competition

Twelve works, created by ten BGA art students, earned awards in this year's regional 2022 Middle Tennessee Scholastic Art Competition. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the most prestigious recognition initiative for creative teens and the largest source of scholarships for young artists.

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Junior Alice Wang Receives Second Quarter Mary Campbell Easel Award

Congratulations to junior Alice Wang on being named the Mary Campbell Easel Award winner for the second quarter of 2021-22! Alice has been at BGA for four years and has taken art classes each year, working diligently on her drawing and painting skills. Alice's oil painting skills have reached a new level while working on her self-portrait "The Blossom of Youth." We are excited to see her growth as she develops her sustained investigation for her AP portfolio next year.

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BGA Students' Art Chosen for the 14th Annual Middle Tennessee Regional Art Exhibition

Artwork by Jimin Lee 27, Isabella Northam '23, Dalia Diab '22, and Chloe Drugeot '22 has been selected to be displayed at the 14th Annual Middle Tennessee Regional Art Exhibition 2022 to be displayed at the John C. Hutcheson Art Gallery at Lipscomb University in Nashville, January 14, 2022 - February 19, 2022.

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