Mission Statement
The Art Department provides our college community opportunities
for understanding, appreciation, and participation in the arts and opportunities
for developing creative, imaginative, and inventive thinking and problem solving.
We offer a curriculum that provides:
- Understanding and appreciation of the fine
and performing arts for students pursuing a general education degree.
- Prepares students for careers of further study in the areas of their
expertise.
- Contributes specialized support courses for students in particular occupational
programs
- Supports our college community with exposure to the arts.
To Achieve our Mission, We Will:
- Hire and maintain a faculty deeply versed in aesthetic, cultural, hermeneutic,
historical, philosophical, psychological, semiotic, social, structural,
and theoretical issues as well as in the specific techniques and performance
practices of their chosen art(s).
- Constantly evaluate our program in order to keep abreast of current artistic
and technical concerns.
- Support our institution's emphasis on cultural diversity.
- Provide the members of our academic community with satisfactory outlets
for individual creative expressions.
- Put the fine and performing arts in the center of humanistic dialogue
and inquiry.
- Offer student recitals and concerts, both on- and off-campus, have regular
exhibitions of student work, develop an on-line gallery of visual, tactile,
and sonic works, and stage innovative and demanding theatrical presentations.
- Situate more offerings from the fine and performing arts within the broader
context of coordinated studies, co-sponsor gallery exhibitions with other
departments and divisions, and seek campus-wide support for guest lecturers,
artists, and performers, whose contributions to the arts make them true
national treasures.
- Broaden our outreach to the community-at-large and seek more opportunities
for student and community involvement.
- Stress the vital importance of the performance and exhibition of aesthetically
significant works of the highest artistic quality and worth.