G D Goenka World School

Art is a rendering of the world and one’s experience within it. In this process of making art forms, we prepare and encourage our children to make visual arts as a content area and to integrate the arts into other areas of learning to ensure that they become knowledgeable and skillful in this visual age.

While students in art classes learn techniques specific to art, such as how to draw, how to mix paint, or how to center a pot, they’re also taught a remarkable array of mental habits not emphasized elsewhere in schools. These habits include observing, envisioning, innovating, and reflecting, each has a high value as a learning tool, both in school and elsewhere in life.

Works of art connects to students personal and social lives. Thus even looking at art “provides an excellent setting for better thinking, for the cultivation of what might be called the art of intelligence.”

The arts stimulate or release imagination by bringing into existence an alternative “reality,” In that way, children can envision a world that is different from the world they know, and thus art education opens the possibility for creating new worlds, rather than simply accepting the world as it is. “We know that imagination reaches toward a future, towards what might be, what should be, what is not yet,” .

Art education opens the possibility for creating new worlds…

Students can choose from a wide variety of artistic activities:

• Drawing & Painting
• Pottery & Sculpture
• Mural
• Clay Modelling
• Print Making
• Tie & Dye
• Doll Making
• Paper cutting & Pasting