Ideally, students will be actively involved in the arts experience throughout their lives. Therefore, their introduction to any artistic discipline must be balanced between positive, hands-on experience and solid technical and theoretical understanding. To that end, Hamden Hall's Department of Performing and Visual Arts strives to challenge students, in and out of the classroom, to produce their own unique artistic expression and to understand and appreciate the art of our world's cultures. Theater, music, and the visual arts are pursued with both a creative and analytical mind with the final goal of producing in every student a self-confident, well-rounded, and artistic young adult.