Placing contemporary artistic trends in a long-term historical, social and aesthetic perspective comes naturally to students whose everyday experience, though intimately connected to the present day world of computers and the internet, nevertheless contains constant visible reminders of more than 2000 years of artistic accomplishment - of the attention humanity has paid to detail and to form, to content and shape, in its eternal quest to express the contemporary spirit.
The international faculty of professional artists appreciates this constant source of inspiration and benefits from it, both in their own artistic work and in their teaching at St. Stephen's School.
St. Stephen's Arts classes:
- provide the student with an opportunity to exercise his or her aesthetic sense in a variety of mediums, working individually in Creative Writing class and Visual Art courses - 2D Art, 3D Art, Photography (digital and wet) - or working as part of a group in the Performing Art courses - Dance, Drama and Music (Chorus and Instrumental)
- promote each student's familiarity with and confidence in his or her own ability to create and/or perform
- foster the student's acquisition of the fundamental techniques and experience necessary to facilitate articulate expression
- stimulate the student to think "outside the box," to find a personal voice, and to combine technique and control with personal vision
- develop the student's appreciation of both the pursuit of perfection - the "job well done" and of the personal patience and perseverance such a goal requires
