Visual and Performing Arts

At Agnes Irwin, Visual and Performing Arts are central to the human experience, offering students avenues for self-expression, reflection, and well-being. Creating, performing, and engaging with art enhances learning across disciplines, providing a lens through which students can experience and understand the world in new and meaningful ways.

Key Components of the Agnes Irwin Visual/Performing Arts Curriculum

• Self-expression and reflection: The arts allow students to communicate their ideas, experiences, and emotions in restorative and meaningful ways.
• Global and cultural connections: The Art connects students to diverse cultures and perspectives, integrating history, contemporary issues, and global artistic traditions.
• Agency and cultural literacy: Studying the arts helps students locate themselves within the broader cultural and historical canon, recognizing their role in creative production and collective memory.

Promoting Independent Thinking

Our graduates are able to:

• Create and perform art through a thoughtful design process, using experimentation and revision as tools for learning and discovery.
• Use their own art—and engage with others’—to express ideas, beliefs, and experiences, and to tell stories.
• Explore and discuss enduring themes and diverse perspectives across disciplines through the lens of art.