The Performing Arts Department aims to create a culture of consideration and creativity, teaching students to exhibit goodness and stand for truth by discovering and presenting our place in a metanarrative and increasing beauty by finding places to be creative throughout life.

We teach our students to be:

• Practitioners who use their talents to serve their communities.

• Analysts who discern the value behind the different media in the world and are intelligent consumers.

• Advocates who continue to support art with their time, talent, and treasure.

The arts amplify and enhance our lives. Creative thinkers have a competitive advantage—they provide greater value in their fields because they are accustomed to working hard, digging deep, seeing clearly, and articulating their insights. We believe that this is what Jesus was talking about when he said that he had come to give us an “abundant life.” However, we don’t believe that this means the arts are “extra:” they are profoundly important to the human experience. Because of that, we seek to be a place where every student can belong, improve, and create—as we ourselves were created to do.