Fine Arts
Gill St. Bernard’s believes education in the Fine Arts is an essential and integral part of the social, emotional and intellectual development of young people. To that end, Fine Arts courses challenge students to conceive of the world in visual terms, in musical terms and to see the relationship between the fine arts and one’s life. Courses are offered in studio art, woodworking, photography and choral music.
Among the objectives of the Fine Arts Department are:
- To discover the aesthetic significance of a formal order that we call “beauty” and of a freer organization by which we recognize the expression of feeling
- To develop a sensitivity to great works of art by undergoing the frustrating task of trying to draw
- To discover the feeling of satisfaction, exuberance and accomplishment that comes from creating a piece of furniture, a painting, or participating in a musical performance
- To create self-confidence in the area of expression that might be lacking due to underexposure and inexperience
- To experience hands-on education by implementing an individual design, working from a two-dimensional drawing and creating a three-dimensional piece.
