Art education constitutes an important area of curricular activity for the development of the whole-some personality of the learners.

OBJECTIVES
The objectives of art education are to:

• help the students to consolidate past experiences and knowledge
• introduce the students to new media and techniques and their use for creative expression and for making objects of common use
• provide opportunities for the development of awareness about folk arts, local specific arts and other cultural components leading to an awareness and appreciation of national heritage
• help the students to use artistic and aesthetic sensibility in day-to-day life situation
• help the students to achieve a balanced growth as a social being in tune with our cult through projects on natural and cultural heritage etc
• get acquainted with the life and work of the local artists/artistes
• develop creative expression through locally available material with the help of the community
• refine the sense of appreciation of the beauty of nature and the basic elements of art forms.

In the interest of the learner, as far as possible, all the media of creative arts may be placed before the students for their choice of selection in one form of art or in a combination of art forms. These are: