Program Rationale
The Homewood-Flossmoor High School Fine Arts Department believes that the quality of a student’s life is uniquely enriched by the development of skills and values learned in the creation and/or performance of the Fine Arts. Study of the Fine Arts encourages students to function on multiple intellectual, analytical, thoughtful, and expressive levels.

Visual communication is part of daily life. A familiarity with the arts is an integral and essential communicative skill that links the human experience. A comprehensive Visual Arts experience engages the student in meaningful art criticism, aesthetics, history and production. Process, craftsmanship, exposure and connection to a worldview of art-making promote a standard of quality that enhances the individual’s life.

Program Goals
Students will ...
  Understand and apply a wide variety of media, techniques, and processes;
  Use and apply knowledge of terminology, structures and functions;
  Choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas promoting independent thought and constructive imagination;
  Understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures;
  Reflect upon and assess the characteristics and the work of others, focusing on development of a sense of quality and appreciation of craftsmanship; and
  Make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.