Visual and Performing Arts Philosophy

The Visual and Performing Arts program provides advanced and integrated education through the arts for qualified students whose future goals include further study, career training, and lifelong involvement in the arts.  The arts training must take into consideration the current and future demands of the workplace, society, and the individual that go beyond basic reading and writing literacy.  In order to participate fully in society and to realize their potential, students must encounter an arts program that challenges their abilities, capitalizes on their aspirations, and enlarges their views of the world and their place in it. If the students are to excel in the arts processes, then the processes must be addressed in an integrated fashion developing visual and performing arts literacy and conceptual understanding as well as technical skills promoting individual expression through the arts.