The goal of Visual Arts instruction at Hunter College High School is that students better understand how art is made, appreciate the roles art has played through the centuries, and realize how much enjoyment they can have in both making and looking at works of art.

The Arts faculty believes that in order to realize students’ creative potential in the making of art, students must understand the history of art. The making of art and the understanding of creative concepts, aesthetics, and criticism are essential to one another and should not be separated.