About Arts on Earth
Arts on Earth’s mission is to promote the full human capacity for creativity by integrating art-making and the arts into the life of the University.
Until recently, clamor for teaching the arts in the schools has typically subsided at the gates of the research university. There, students are expected to “put away childish things” and focus on the education and training that will prepare them for their chosen career paths.
But engagement with the arts during the university years is crucial – and not only because of the arts’ broadly humanizing influence. Undergraduate engagement with the arts enhances students’ ability to handle ambiguity, to analyze and respond to complex problems, and to make creative intellectual leaps – cognitive capacities that are both inherently rewarding and increasingly rewarded in the twenty-first century workplace.
Arts on Earth envisions a university that, by treating creative process through the arts as an indispensable mode of learning, actively supports students, faculty and staff in the rigorous cultivation of their full human capacity.
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