Studio & Performing Arts

Arts Chair, Mr. Mogilnicki
Art Listings
Department Faculty

Tabor's arts programs are designed to serve all students, from the gifted who seek increasingly sophisticated levels of instruction and performance venues—on and off campus—to those new to the joys and discipline of shaping a bowl on a potter's wheel, acting, managing a light board, or performing in a chamber ensemble.

The Braitmayer Art Center houses two studios and a photography lab. The Ceramics Studio is equipped with 14 electric potters' wheels, three indoor electric kilns, two outdoor Raku kilns, a slab roller, pug mill extruder, state of the art glaze lab and down draft gas kiln. The Fine Arts Studio has areas for painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. The recently renovated photography lab contains a developing room with black-and-white developing capabilities and seven enlargers.

Instrumental music students at Tabor; perform in different venues across campus as well as in honors ensembles at the Southeastern District, Massachusetts All-State and All-Eastern Music Festivals.  Our instrumentalists have performed with the greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestra; A high percentage of the players take lessons with the twelve private music instructors who are on campus throughout the week.

For vocalists, the options are many, from entry-level chorus training to the select Madrigal Singers. Tabor's choral musicians audition for and perform at the Southeastern District, Massachusetts All-State and All-Eastern Music Festivals; They study voice and perform in solo recitals, choral concerts, school meetings and chapel.

Drama students at Tabor, in very real ways, run all theatrical performances at Tabor. They direct and stage manage shows, perform in shows, design lighting and scenery for shows, build scenery and props for shows, and run the technical aspects of all shows during performances. The most well-rounded Tabor theater students are those who experience both sides of theatrical productions, performing and technical. With each production, Tabor students focus not only on the process of putting on a show,but also on learning, growing, and building a team with everyone involved. Although scenes and plays at Tabor have been staged virtually everywhere, including the dining hall and the Headmaster's office, most are staged in two state-of-the-art performance spaces, The Will Parker Black Box Theater and the Fireman Auditorium.