The Visual Arts program at North Raleigh Christian Academy strives to provide each student with:
- An awareness of their God-given gifts and abilities;
- A sensitivity to God’s creation and a means to respond to what they see;
- The opportunity to express ideas visually, by developing skills in drawing, painting, sculpting, designing, and crafting.
- A fundamental knowledge of artistic heritage and how art history relates to the present.
- The opportunity to make qualitative visual judgments as they learn to appreciate diverse expressions of creativity.
Specific guiding is fundamental. Step-by-step guiding that produces satisfactory results is valuable even when the means of accomplishment are not fully understood. A core knowledge of the foundations of art will be taught, encouraging each student with the understanding that these are learnable skills that require diligence, practice, and persistence. Their key to success is practicing one small concept at a time, while they are developing an understanding of the various mediums and techniques.
