Embracing the Arts
Chandler-Gilbert values and supports the Arts as a window of self discovery. When students develop critical-thinking and creative problem-solving skills through art, they improve their class performance, and enhance their lives. We offer a diverse Arts program that creates learning opportunities for students, and a shared cultural experience that enriches our community.
Art History
In Art History classes students explore art, images, and objects and their historical and cultural impact while building skills in analysis and evaluation.
Ceramics
Working in one of the finest ceramics studios in the East Valley, students develop ceramic and critical thinking skills while exploring their imagination and developing their artistic style.
Dance
With live performance opportunities throughout the year, students learn to practice dance as an art form, with emphasis on principles of movement and choreography in a variety of dance styles.
Digital Arts
Students prepare for advanced studies in computer art and illustration by cultivating foundational drawing and drafting skills that develop artistic proficiency in design and composition.
Drawing & Painting
Art instruction for personal enrichment and employment opportunities, emphasizing creative problem-solving, design and composition, storyboarding, illustration, painting, and comics and sequential art.
Music
Voice and Instrumental Majors study theory and musicianship in class and private instruction, with audition and performance opportunities for choral groups and vocal ensembles, as well as CGCC bands, orchestras, and jazz combos.
Musical Theatre
Studies in Musical Theatre include surveys in American music, Broadway musicals and solos, diction for singers, and participation in stage productions and Musical Theatre Workshops
Photography
Focusing on digital photography, courses expose students to multiple aspects of digital imagery, including color and composition, lighting effects, and photo-imaging software.
Theatre
As the home of a vibrant and diverse theatre community invested in artistic exploration and the collaborative process, CGCC offers classes in acting, directing, makeup and stagecraft.