Pacifica Stories

A Note from the Director of PACARTS on The Art of Formation

At Pacifica Christian High School, student artists are formed by encountering the world with curiosity,imagination, discipline, and wonder. We believe that all truth, beauty, and goodness find their source inGod, and the arts provide a unique opportunity for students to reflect His creativity and explore His creation. At PACARTS, the creative process becomes an intersection of faith and learning as students develop artistic skill while growing in wisdom, character, and purpose.

Each year the PACARTS season tells a unique story designed to form student artists. This year’s journey moves through interconnected expressions of creativity: story, expression, imagination, collaboration, voice, harmony, and community. Each production, exhibition, and performance represents a different way students engage the creative process.

Our season begins with story through two fall theater productions from the genre of concept theater.The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] and SIX the Musical invite students to examine how stories are created, preserved, interpreted, and retold. Through history, literature, humor, and theatrical innovation, students engage the complexity of the human experience, while participating in the Great Conversation that has shaped our culture. 

The Winter Art Gallery moves
us into expression, as students transform observation, imagination, and artistic exploration into works of visual beauty. Through drawing, painting, mixed media, and photography, students experience the journey from practice to creation to exhibition as they learn how art invites us to see the world more carefully and understand it more deeply.As spring approaches, Peter and the Starcatcher invites students into imagination, challenging them to create new worlds through storytelling, collaboration, and inventive stagecraft. The Spring Music & Dance Concert celebrates collaboration, reminding us that artistic excellence is cultivated through trust, discipline, and shared creativity. Through SCREEN Student Film Festival and Wolf PACappella, students discover the power of voice and harmony—using film, music, and performance to communicate ideas, connect with others, and contribute their unique gifts to the world.

i.Sight Festival brings the entire Pacifica community together in celebration the PACARTS season. With more than 50% of the student body participating, i.Sight embodies the heart of PACARTS: creativity belongs to everyone. It is a reminder that the arts are not simply something we produce; they are something we experience together as a community.

The greatest accomplishment of a PACARTS season is not measured only by the quality of the final performance or exhibition. It is measured by the formation of students who emerge from the process—students who have learned perseverance through rehearsal, humility through collaboration, courage through vulnerability, and wisdom through engaging the world around them. Our hope is that every PACARTS experience forms thoughtful creators who recognize their gifts as a reflection of God’s creativity and understand their responsibility to contribute beauty, truth, and goodness to the world.
Thank you for celebrating this journey with us.

Nate Overby
Arts Director
Pacifica Christian High School