The Art and Design Department is dedicated to nurturing critical thinking and visual literacy through an engaging, supportive, and collaborative classroom environment. Our curriculum is designed with the whole child in mind, fostering independence through differentiated and self-directed work. We develop a lifelong aptitude and desire to learn, explore, create, and invent. The arts program is committed to the process of creating over the final product. We seek to engage students in experimentation, risk-taking, and discovery, thereby allowing them to create their own unique solutions. Introducing students to an increasingly diverse selection of art and artists fosters opportunity, equity, and inclusivity. This allows students to see themselves in a variety of representations, inspires them to share their unique voices, and become global citizens.
 
Visual arts education provides every student opportunities to develop the global 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. Visual arts education provides richness and complexity to learning by engaging students in the study of artistic processes, the construction of knowledge, and critical reflection.

National Art Education Association