Open House

Beauty in the Life of the Lower School

Great Hearts Irving’s Core Purpose is to cultivate the minds and hearts of our students through the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. Of these three, the roles of truth and goodness are, perhaps, more straightforward. As stated in Our View of Learning, “We believe that truth exists…. Truth is never just ‘my truth’ and ‘your truth,'” there is one truth that teachers and students seek together through “disciplined study and good-willed conversation.” At Great Hearts Irving, we assert that out of this truth flows standards of goodness and moral virtue. Alongside a love of the truth, a humane education which speaks to the whole person seeks also to cultivate in our students love of goodness, knowledge of right and wrong, and the courage to pursue it diligently.

What is perhaps less obvious is the question of how beauty fits in, but it is a question of crucial importance—especially in a school for young children. As James S. Taylor says in Poetic Knowledge explaining the educational program laid out by Plato in the Republic, “songs, poetry, music, gymnastic—[these] are meant to awaken and refine a sympathetic knowledge of the reality of the True, Good, and Beautiful, by placing the child inside the experience of those transcendentals as they are contained in these arts and sensory experiences.” The only way a child can be taught what is beautiful is to encounter it. At Great Hearts Irving, we seek to immerse our scholars in beauty at every turn—beautiful language, beautiful music, and, of course, beautiful images.

Gallery Night

Gallery Night is a celebration of beauty in the life of our school. Each year, Gallery Night is an opportunity to celebrate the care and diligence poured by our students into their creations made in imitation of the most beautiful works in our artistic tradition as well as the sublime installations of artwork that adorn our hallways. Gallery Night is an opportunity for our parent community to experience the same beauty our scholars do every day. You are cordially invited to our third annual Gallery Night.

Open House

We are delighted to host this year’s Gallery Night as an Open House. The evening will feature displays of our students’ artwork that parents will be able to view in our hallways, and, of course, fellowship with other parents from our school community.

Paintings

Not only do our halls feature high-quality reproductions of some of the most beautiful and important works of art from the Western Tradition, but the works are hung strategically throughout our building to mirror the curriculum our students experience in each grade level. That means that, as our year progresses, our students gradually gain a better and better understanding of the works of art in the hallway outside their classroom.

When and Where

Friday, March 27th, 2026
4:00pm to 6:00pm

Great Hearts Irving Lower School
3580 W Story Rd
Irving, Texas 75038