Believing that mastery in the arts is a sequential, life-long process, the fine arts department is committed to providing every student with a comprehensive arts curriculum that promotes artistic learning, exploration and expression.

Students need direct, participatory experiences with all art forms in order to develop artistic literacy and skills, understand how artists make aesthetic choices, and interpret, create and express.  Active engagement in the arts (music, speech and theatre arts, and visual arts) and in an arts-infused interdisciplinary curriculum contributes to the development of holistically-educated students who are better able to solve problems, use their imaginations, develop critical-thinking skills and enjoy life.  These experiences also provide students with the cognitive and affective skills with which to explore and understand more about themselves and the world.

Education through the arts takes into account the various learning styles inherent in each child. The arts serve as a catalyst to facilitate non-traditional modes of learning.  Artistic training is learning by doing.  While gaining knowledge, students develop a multiplicity of skills by working collaboratively, being judicious risk-takers, and benefiting from mistakes.  Students also strive toward higher levels of achievement, become self-motivated learners, and derive great pride and satisfaction from a job well done.