The Arts

On Sunday, March 19th, Mount Vernon kindergartener Kaia Kollar celebrated her birthday with fellow kindergartners at Mount Vernon’s monthly Build Event.  Kaia has been coming to the MV Build Events all year. She started working on the set for Sense and Sensibility in September by painting some set pieces, as… Read More »Student Spotlight: Kaia Kollar

Feed the need for musical hilarity with this delicious sci-fi smash about a man-eating plant presented by the All-stars for their theatre season closer! Performances are in Black Box Theater as follows: April 26 @ 6:00 PM (preview)April 27 @ 6:00 PMApril 28 @ 6:00 PMApril 29 @ 2:00 PM… Read More »Little Shop of Horrors 2023

On Wednesday, April 5, the Mount Vernon Dance Company will be featured in the pregame performance of the Atlanta Hawks vs. Washington Wizards basketball game!  The dance company, led by director Jasmine Gray, consists of Mount Vernon’s most talented dancers, from first-year students to seniors. The company has been practicing… Read More »MV Dance Company at Atlanta Hawks

On March 16th, the Mount Vernon community celebrated its diversity and collaborative spirit at the first annual MV Global gathering. American families and families with cultural ties from around the globe joined together. They created beautiful national presentations of each country’s flags, fun facts, traditional foods, cultural symbols, garb, artwork,… Read More »MV Global Inaugural Event in Review

Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade artists spent the month of January investigating quilts. Whether the purpose is fashion or function, quilts are found in cultures worldwide and can be traced back thousands of years. Quilts are often a reflection of the time in which they were created, and many quilts… Read More »Preschool: The Wonder of Visual Arts

The LS Variety Show was an evening to remember and featured so many talented comedians, dancers, rappers, singers, pianists, magicians, drummers, and stagehands. Thank you to teachers, students, and parents for making this display of talent possible, and a special thanks to parent volunteers for helping with auditions and performances.

Shay Jones is Mount Vernon’s Director of Lower Campus Arts and teaches the LS and MS Performing Dance teams. Born and raised in the greater Atlanta area, Shay was trained at a ballet school and later at a competition dance studio in Marietta. She subsequently attended the University of Alabama,… Read More »Spotlight: Shay Jones

Kat Petty, Class of 2024 Alfred Hitchcock’s sensational spy thriller comedy, The 39 Steps, is coming January 25 – 27 to the Mount Vernon Black Box Theater!! The show is this year’s senior theatre project and is entirely run by senior theatre students, who are acting, directing, and marketing the… Read More »US Senior Showcase: 39 Steps