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 and to see the relationship between the fine arts and one’s life. Courses are offered in studio art, woodworking, and photography.
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 and to see into other civilizations through the artifacts they created
- To discover the feeling of satisfaction, exuberance and accomplishment that comes from creating a piece of furniture, a painting, or a papier mache figure
- 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.
- To give our students the vocabulary to express their their thoughts and feelings concretely as well as verbally
