The Community School of the Arts invites you to join us for our annual Silent Auction on February 11 & 12. All proceeds go directly to our Annual Campaign, which provides need-based scholarships to more than 50 students each year. Please stop by the auction anytime, bid on your favorite item, and help a great [...]

The Community School of the Arts is pleased to announce that it is now offering guitar lessons! Kevin Brown is joining our faculty and will start teaching when our second semester begins on January 21. Kevin received his BM in Classical Guitar Performance from the Wheaton College Conservatory and is currently working on his Master’s [...]

Nine CSA students from the studio of Emily Puntuzs performed Christmas music at Edward Hospital in Naperville this past holiday season. A yearly event for Ms Puntuzs’ studio, the students look forward to performing and bringing holiday cheer to hospital visitors as well as patients in the cancer center.

Register now for 2nd semester classes, which begin on January 21! We have openings in Visual Art, Early Childhood, Beethoven’s Buddies (Little Maestros class), and Musical Theater. Click here for a registration form, and send yours in or drop it off today! We also accept private lesson registrations for placement throughout the year. If you [...]

Explore the arts this summer with CSA! Choose from our two day camps: Summer Arts Junior – June 7–11 (ages 1.5–7 years), Summer Arts Encounter – June 21–25 (grades 2–12), or our Summer Session – May 24–July 2 (grade 1–adult). From Monster Mania! (ceramics) to Spotlight on YOU (theater) to Orffapalooza! (percussion), there is something [...]

CSA’s January/February e-newsletter is now available online! Click “Read Full Post” to access newsletter link.

CSA is offering a free program information meeting tonight, Monday, January 11 at 7pm in McAlister 224 on the Wheaton College campus. Join CSA Director, Jody Grandlienard, as she presents a multi-media overview of CSA’s music and art programs. This is an excellent opportunity to learn why an Arts Education is important to the development [...]

Wheaton College’s Community School of the Arts (CSA) presents a Children’s Choirs and Handbells Christmas concert at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, December 19. The Junior and Senior Choirs, will be singing pieces including Come to Earth O Tiny King, a Spanish lullaby, Duermete Nino, Snowflake Carol, and the humorous Santa Needs a Vacation. Three CSA Handbell [...]

This fall, CSA was busy creating the group art project, “INSPIRE”. CSA’s art students, music students, faculty and staff made up the over 140 people who created this piece that contains over 250 components! In preparation for this piece, the participants learned some watercolor techniques as well as how each piece works individually and as [...]

Sunday afternoon, CSA students and their families were treated to a recital given by members of CSA’s talented faculty. The annual Faculty Recital & Art Exhibit gives students the opportunity to hear their teachers perform, and to enjoy artwork created by the Visual Arts teachers. The audience enjoyed CSA clarinet teacher Lacy Garbar’s performance of [...]