Fine Arts

The discipline-based fine arts education program at Stuart strives to make the arts a vital part of a student’s education by providing an outstanding arts curriculum for every grade level in music, drama and visual art.  The program includes classes in skill building, art history, aesthetics, and critique, and the curriculum supports the conviction that the arts offer important tools for personal expression, intellectual, and social development; that the arts are an essential part of the academic curriculum for the achievement of human, social, and economic growth. The program embraces all learning styles in a framework encouraging teamwork and fostering leadership skills. 

Art education at Stuart seeks to develop in its students: 

• the ability to be creative and inventive decision makers
• varied and powerful ways of communicating ideas, thoughts, and feelings; an enhanced sense of poise and self-esteem
• confidence to undertake new tasks
• knowledge of the experiences of aesthetic engagement and intuition
• increased potential for life success
• an enriched quality of life.