The vision for our students is a professional space that serves as a vehicle for artists to use and share their gifts. This new space gives our artists an opportunity to create, display and share their varying styles and techniques. Our Fine Arts Department has three full-time teachers and offers 14 sections of art, including three AP courses. 
 
In 2015, the arts studios were renovated and upgraded, producing a new space designed to house large projects and encourage creative thinking. We will also expand the adjacent outdoor patio, providing students the opportunity to use the outdoors as inspiration for their work.  

The facilities for our nationally renowned band programs and music classes—where student participation has more than tripled over the last decade—are one of our greatest needs. That is why we built the 15,000-square-foot Donatelli Center for the Visual and Performing Arts.  
 
This space includes three performance classrooms outfitted with exceptional acoustic design, three academic classrooms, individual practice rooms, elevator access, and enough storage space to accommodate a dozen bands and hundreds of instruments. The performing arts wing opened in August 2016. 

In the winter of 2017, St. John’s opened the Cap Mona Family Student Center, which houses the new theater complex. It is outfitted with a director’s office, dressing rooms, bathrooms, a green room, additional storage for props and costumes, and the Gene Morrill Black Box Theater—a small, flexible space that can be easily rearranged to perform intimate plays, run in-depth rehearsals or hold special events such as recitals, lectures, or small concerts. This theater complex gives our teachers and students the flexible space and scheduling they need to fully support their amazing work—and the foundation to think bigger.