ART

Art Education provides students with the skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed in work and life.

Business leaders and visionary thinkers concerned about preparation of students for the future know that the ability to be creative is native to the arts and is one of the primary processes learned through arts education. The arts promote work habits that cultivate curiosity, imagination, creativity, and evaluation skills. Students who possess these skills are better able to tolerate ambiguity, explore new realms of possibility, express their own thoughts and feelings and understand the perspectives of others. Furthermore, these examples suggest ways that study of the arts can help produce globally aware, collaborative, and responsible citizens.

Communications in today’s world increasingly emphasizes multimedia and the arts. For personal as well as professional success, students must learn to critically interpret visual  media and to convey their own ideas through art making. . Many courses in art explore the rich array of artistic media and tools Both traditional and new media, offer powerful opportunities to cultivate skills and to articulate human expression. Students’ future capacity to create and express themselves through the arts is one of the central qualities that  will make them good communicators, thinkers and citizens.