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De Smet Fine Arts Department
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,
and the less the artist does the better."
Andre Gide
Fine Arts Department Course Descriptions
The Fine Arts programs at De Smet Jesuit High School are designed to provide opportunities for students to broaden their intellectual diversity through artistic self-expression and aesthetic exploration. The fine arts faculty work to foster a spirit of openness, curiosity and playfulness through a variety of classes and media. Whether learning how to play an instrument or sing, to sculpt, paint or draw, through acting, movement or the study of film, De Smet students can begin to acquire the skill, methodologies, and the conceptual parameters to produce their own art, dance, drama, and music. They also are encouraged to consider the process of making art apart from its results, gaining a capacity to try new things involving some risk.
Whether a student has a serious interest in the arts, or if they have just a casual curiosity, they will find our course offerings both challenging and stimulating. Each of the fine arts areas offers a student the opportunity to progressively develop his skills to a level of competency needed to be prepared for college, and as the basis for lifelong learning.
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the
reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell
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