Art reminds us that to be fully human is not only to understand the world, but also to create, share, and feel it. Accordingly, art plays a vital role in the liberal arts by nurturing the imagination, cultivating expression, developing artistic practice, and deepening capacity to recognize beauty and meaning.
The Fine Arts Department, comprised of Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, engages students in the study of art. Programs in these areas involve artistic creation and interpretation across diverse traditions and media. Through artmaking, cultural study, and critical analysis, Fine Arts courses enable students to develop freedom, focus, imagination, courage, and craft. These qualities are foundational not only to lifelong participation in the arts, but also to the development of a unified, integrated, and fundamentally human experience of the world.
