From the youngest kindergartener to the graduating senior, the Wooster art department has one all-encompassing mission: to nurture the creativity we know is inherent in every individual. Through our commitment to the process of making art through experimentation and play, by providing experience in working with different media and techniques, by exposing students to the work of different periods as well as of different cultures, and by providing optimal avenues for students to become proficient in their skills, we hope to accomplish this mission and contribute to the intellectual, spiritual, ethical, physical, and aesthetic education of Wooster's student body.
The objective of the K-12 curriculum is, through age-appropriate work with a variety of art materials, to develop and increase manipulative, conceptual, and creative 
thinking skills. Through practice, students increase their ability to concentrate, to organize information, to see relationships, and to solve problems; they gain the confidence to take risks, to be inventive, playful, and spontaneous, and to trust their intuition and imagination; they gain fluency in self-expression; they develop a tolerance for complexity and ambiguity; they learn to hone their perceptions and visual memory, to express original ideas in a personal style, to engage in evaluation without condemnation, and to exercise self-discipline, good craftsmanship, attention to detail, and tenacity of purpose.
Continuity is stressed in the curriculum for each grade, in the curriculum from one year to the next, and from one division to another, thus reinforcing the long-range goals of the K-12 curriculum.
By the time a student graduates, s/he should understand the basic terms, techniques, and principles of art; s/he should have completed work in a variety of artistic media including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and collage, with optional work in photography, ceramics, computer graphics, and video; s/he should understand the role art plays throughout history as well as in contemporary culture; s/he should be
familiar with many of the names and works of the great artists and art movements of the past as well as have a familiarity with contemporary art and art of other cultures.
The Visual Arts Program at Wooster School 
