The Art Program will enable students to:

1. Increase their store of visual images in order to develop perception, concepts, understanding, and learning.
2. Identify, analyze, interpret, and make informed judgments about works of art within social, historical, and cultural contexts.
3. Respond to the aesthetic qualities of visual art and environment.
4. Organize visual information in terms of form, content, and context.
5. Develop skills and techniques to produce works of art.
6. Develop a nonsexist understanding of art and the human condition.
7. Understand and value their own and other cultures.
8. Show respect for materials for their own work and for the work of others.
9. Identify and use community resources in the visual arts.
10. Effectively use the vocabulary of art in both oral and written form.
11. Demonstrate safe and proper use of tools and equipment used in studio production.
12. Generate personal growth by expanding experience and self-understanding.