Art Program Learning Outcomes

1. Give and receive, in humility, oral and written evaluations that make clear connections between the form and content of their own artwork and of others’ artwork. (Oral Communication, Written Communication, Systematic Inquiry).

2. Demonstrate accurate and empathetic application of Christian, Western, and non-Western symbolic and metaphorical meanings in their art and in their analyses of others’ art. (Christian Literacy & Faith).

3. Demonstrate a process of research, development, and revision to produce a generous body of personal work that culminates in a gallery exhibit. (Systematic Inquiry, Specialized Knowledge).

4. Develop artworks that create meaningful conversations with artworks across cultures, times, and places, demonstrating their sense of context in art history. (Systematic Inquiry).

5. Demonstrate hospitable presentations of their artwork to diverse audiences, engaging and responding to viewers’ specific experiences of their art presentation. (Informed & Responsive Citizenship, Service to Society and Church).

6. In each art medium, through disciplined practice, develop technical excellence to communicate visual relationships observed in nature, in a dynamic relationship with imagination, geometry, and compositional conventions. (Specialized Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning).