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The Goals of the New Masters Program

1. To provide all students with a solid technical foundation in representational drawing and painting skills -- to be used either for their own enjoyment or as a basis for further training in the commercial or fine arts fields.
   
   
   
   
2. To help students develop skills more fundamental than drawing and painting, those general skills necessary for success in any field: patience, endurance, concentration, the ability to work carefully and deliberately, to analyze problems and develop intelligent strategies to solve them, the ability to be self-reflective and self-critical.
   
   
   
   
3. To help students adopt personal standards of excellence that will carry through into all areas of their lives.
   
   

John Gordon
Director, Gordon School of Art