Creative Arts Mission, Goals, & Objectives

Our mission is to create a supportive and adaptive curriculum that engages, challenges, and inspires students to explore their own creative identities. We integrate the critical inquiry central to liberal arts with the dynamic energy of the studio environment, and provide students with the tools, media, and techniques essential to effective art-making. With a commitment to inclusion and a sensitivity to the fragility of the earth, we, in conjunction with the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, encourage students to employ the transformative power of art broadly to enrich both themselves and the lives of others.

Our Goals & Objectives

Program Goal 1: Acquire technical skills across the core disciplines of studio art. 

• Students will demonstrate the ability to apply the elements and principles of art and design. 
• Students will demonstrate the ability to apply both media-specific and cross-media methodologies creatively.  
• Students will demonstrate the ability to employ technologies according to media-specific goals. 

Program Goal 2: Develop self-reflective and solution-oriented creative strategies. 

• Students will demonstrate the ability to employ the creative process for meaning-making and personal insight. 
• Students will demonstrate the ability to sustain a deliberate plan of creative action. 

Program Goal 3: Understand artistic practice within a sociocultural context.  

• Students will demonstrate knowledge of artmaking within a historical, intellectual, or cultural context. 

For more information on learning goals and outcomes, contact institutionalresearch@lvc.edu.