The Division of Fine & Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College provides courses and special events
as well as an "artists' community" for students at all levels who are planning avocations and/or vocations in the
artistic fields of Creative Writing,  Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. 

The Division of Fine & Performing Arts values the creative process and the creative product as well  the student's 
individual creative "voice." The Division is devoted to the idea of interdependence of work in the arts with the 
broader worlds of ideas and action which will, ultimately, lead to a vibrant and responsible culture. 

Objectives:

• to develop a personal sense of aesthetics, including a conscious awareness of discipline specific basics, 
aesthetic fundamentals, aesthetic application and aesthetic principles 

• to develop and enhance a conscious awareness and respect for others' ways of thinking, 
working and expressing themselves 

• to develop and enhance various artistic methods of problem solving, including diverse approaches 
to expressive, analytical and developmental tools to every human situation 

• to develop and enhance an awareness of how the arts reflect and reveal cultures 

• to develop and enhance our students' ability to understand the human experience, both past and present