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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 large percentage of the players take lessons with the twelve private music instructors who visit campus throughout the week.
For vocalists, the options are many, from entry-level training chorus 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 on the process of putting on a show, of learning and growing, as well as on 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.

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Mr. Heavey says...
John Heavey - Academic credentials
Responsibilities at Tabor: Chair of the English dept.; dormparent of New House; direct either the winter musical or one of the fall shows each year; coordinate the spring one-acts
Most memorable Tabor moment? Hm...that's a tough one because I have several. However, one of them was certainly watching my eight-year old son Sam act in the muscial "Tommy" (which I directed). A year later he also appeared in the musical, "Mame." Interestingly, I haven't been able to get him back on the Tabor stage since then.
What has it been watching one of your own children go through Tabor? It's been incredibly gratifying for me to see how well Sam has been taught, coached, mentored, advised, and guided by my colleagues. I am forever gratfeful to the Tabor community for all they have given to Sam.
What student qualities make for the strongest Tabor experience? Industriousness coupled with risk-taking. Students who maximize their talents through hard work and who are also willing to get outside their comfort zone get the most out of Tabor.
Advice for a new student? Never underestimate what you can discover about yourself by getting outside your comfort zone. If you've never acted, audition for a show. If you've never sung, take mixed chorus. If you've never rowed, go out for crew. If you've never played football or run cross country, try it!
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