In a Discipline Based Art Education Program students are not trained to become Artists. They are trained to understand the Arts the way it functions and influences their lives.

Areas of concentration:

• Production

Very simply put, how is it made? What materials and process were used?


• Aesthetics

Students learn how to see Art using cognitive perception, practical perception and aesthetic perception.


• Art History

In Art History we use a strategy to gain information about a work rather than from the work.

1. Describe who, what, where, when and how the art work was done.
2. Describe any unique features of the art work.
3. Interpret how the artist was influenced by the world he or she lived in.
4. Comment about the works importance.

• Criticism

1. What characteristics do you perceive from the art work?
(textures, colors, space, shapes)
2. Describe it's composition. How is it put together? Is it organized and if so how? Any balance or patterns present?
3. How did the Artist produce the work?
4. What Idea, feelings and moods is the Artist trying to get accross?