Visual & Performing Arts
Urban’s Visual and Performing Arts
Department seeks to create opportunities for students to identify their
creative impulses and act upon them with intent, patience and perseverance. Our
assignments are designed to help students achieve aesthetic awareness and
technical proficiency. We ask students to become more aware by delving deep
into their own experiences of life, and bring aspects of themselves into their
work.
Our objective is to mentor young artists,
performers and musicians, to invite exploration of multiple disciplines, and to
experience the interplay of art forms. We encourage our students to develop a
versatility and fluency among varying modes of expression and to discern the
appropriate medium for a given endeavor.
In each project, students use their
imagination, intellectual and emotional awareness, instrument, body or voice as
the impetus for creative expression. Students develop conceptual thinking while
mastering craftsmanship. We encourage students to take risks and to be open to
the incidents and accidents of the creative process. Students assume
group/ensemble responsibilities and/or leadership roles, actively engaging in
collaborative work. We expect students
to graduate with an expanded understanding of themselves as artists, performers
and musicians with the ability to rework, present and critique with an
awareness of history and aesthetics.
