Philosophy Philosophy Art and design are professions requiring talent, knowledge, skill, and dedication.
Employment depends almost entirely on demonstrated competence.
Success is based primarily on work rather than on credentials. Experience tells us that art and design, though dependent on talent, inspiration, and creativity, require much more to function as a significant spiritual and educational force. Talent without skills, inspiration without knowledge, and creativity without technique can account for little but lost potential. The primary purpose of schools of art and design is to help individual students turn talent, inspiration, creativity, and dedication into significant potential for service to the development of art and design culture in its multiple dimensions. Checks and balances are consciously developed and rigorously enforced.