Hill School Arts Facilities

The Center For The Arts (CFTA) is The Hill School’s 31,000-square-foot visual and performing arts center located at 760 Beech St. The CFTA houses the Center Theatre, a 700-seat proscenium theatre that serves as a learning laboratory for budding actors and actresses, scenic and lighting designers, and theatre technicians. The stage has a 50-foot wide proscenium arch and is 35 feet deep. It boasts a computerized lighting system, a recently upgraded digital sound system, a 27-line counterweight system, and 100-foot-high loft where scenery can be hung to clear it from the stage.

The CFTA is also home to the Mary Delan '20 Amphitheater, located outside the CFTA, and the Boyer Gallery, which is located on the ground level of the CFTA.

Student artists and musicians make the second floor of the CFTA their home. There is a large practice room where the Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and other student instrumental groups rehearse, as well as seven individual rooms for students to practice on their own time. Students in all levels of Studio Arts learn and create in the spacious arts studio, which has both fluorescent and track lighting to accommodate for various lighting needs.

The Boyer Gallery is one of the finest facilities of its kind in the tri-county area, providing approximately 2,000 square feet of well-lit exhibit space. Indented wall space juxtaposed with a handsome curved wall and a built-in oak bench creates the perfect setting for two and three dimensional works. Well-known regional artist Mildred Sands Kratz has described it as “the finest exhibit space on the East Coast.”

View the Boyer Gallery Exhibit Schedule.

The Gallery presents a series of art exhibits each year, including solo exhibitions of local and regionally recognized artists, as well as area art guilds and student shows. The Center maintains a permanent collection of area artists who have exhibited in the Center as well as works of exceptional Hill students. The Boyer Gallery was dedicated on October 3, 2003 in honor of The Boyers, an area family that has, for generations, made significant contributions to the local community as well as The Hill School.