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The Art Department aims to promote individuality and self-motivation within a structured environment. During the first two years, traditional skills and disciplines are stressed. Students achieve competency in drawing from observation, in rendering form and texture through line and modeling, and in using color in a variety of paint media.
Elective courses are conducted in the atelier manner where individuality, self-appraisal, and self-criticism are encouraged and developed. Vocationally-oriented courses are based on fine arts, stress concept over technique, and introduce careers in the field. In all courses, the process of learning to “make art” is at least as important as the outcomes.
Students are grouped heterogeneously. Within each class, the range of abilities, both academic and artistic, is accommodated through individual and small group instruction. Students receive three periods of art instruction per day.
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