Art Representative
Coleen Sterritt
Phone: 562.938.4801
email: csterritt@lbcc.edu
Office: LAC K104
LBCC Art Department
The Art Department at Long Beach City College is one of the largest art departments in the California Community College system, and as such, is dedicated to providing students with the finest, most comprehensive introduction to the arts possible. Toward that end, we have brought together a strong corps of professional artists and educators, dedicated to developing a comprehensive foundation for students to explore their innate creativity.
Facts about Arts in Education
The arts involve students in the process of their learning, demanding constant reflection and active participation. The arts enable students to collaborate toward a common purpose. The arts are a powerful connecting force between disciplines. As our world and problems become more complex, creative thinking becomes all the more important. The arts are pleasure. Work in the arts can often be painful in its constant personal inquiry, frustrating in the difficulties of mastery and interpretation, and exhausting in execution. The arts ask questions for which there are no right answers. Schools must be places where students are learning how to learn as a lifelong adventure.
A degree in the arts requires more time than perhaps any other discipline.
Systems of Study & Reasoning Skills Developed
Language: Literal and symbolic
Science: Quantitative and symbolic
Arts: Sensory and symbolic