1. Develop progressive artistic skills among students, university faculty, and staff through sponsoring artistic development seminars/workshops 

2. Provide support to departments/office units in their creative endeavors 

3. Provide financial support and technical assistance for creative productions 

4. Administer and supervise creative arts projects 

5. Support students, university faculty, and personnel in their inter- and multi-disciplinary collaboration and external artistic linkages 

6. Foster a sense of deeper appreciation and special preference for Bikol arts and culture among students, university faculty, and personnel across basic and higher educational levels 

7. Create a pool of artists and creatives

8. Increase the number of students and personnel authoring books, publishing in reputable peer-reviewed journals, and producing quality creative works in various media 

Primary Functions 

1. Draft institutional policies and procedures on matters including, but not limited to, the following: 

a. Management and disbursement of funds for projects/policy implementation 

b. Dissemination of programs and policies to the University community 

c. Initiation, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of each creative arts program 

d. Archiving of creative works 

2. Initiate and implement programs that will capacitate ADNU students across basic and higher educational levels to produce and publish creative works. 

3. Ensure that the quality of creative works produced adheres to government/industry standards. 

4. Support the creative license of artists to produce notable works. 

5. Coordinate with relevant government/private, local, national, or international agencies that provide assistance and/or grants to the production and dissemination of creative works. 

6. For each school year, archive the creative works performed and/or disseminated on specific media platforms. 

7. Manage the funds solicited from fixed student contributions, which will be paid yearly by grade school and junior high school students, and per semester by senior high school and college students. The student contribution amount for creative endeavors will be subject to periodic review and approval of the University President. 

Secondary Functions 

1. Review policies related to the application for incentives and rank promotion of faculty in the creative-work track. 

2. Assist the relevant university ranking and promotion committees from the basic to higher education sectors in assessing the creative works submitted by creative-track faculty for merit or rank-promotion purposes. 

3. Implement the policy on Incentive Awards for Creative Works that reward exemplary creative productions. 

4. Assist ADNU personnel in applying for grants from relevant national/international agencies to fund their creative works.