Beauty

A Trinity learner makes beautiful things and invites others to admire and praise the beautiful in God’s creation and in human works. Trinity learners can make things well: some things useful, some beautiful, and some both. Trinity learners can both appreciate and create such useful and beautiful things, which please in and of themselves.

They learn to wonder at the beauty of nature and of truth; they inspire others to admire and see beauty across all of God’s creation; and they are faithful stewards of creation. Trinity learners demonstrate sensitivity, intelligence, and imagination.

Students who have been trained in the useful and beautiful arts will imitate and perform the artistic work of great artists, will create their own original works (visual, performance, industrial) according to the talents they cultivate, will invite others to admire and praise the wonders of nature and of human creation through fresh perspectives, and will approach the threshold of the sacred and the holy through experience with a piece of music, a poem, a play, a sculpture, a painting, a dance, or any of the varied human expressions of the beautiful.

Creates and appreciates beautiful things

• Things we can see (visual arts)
• Things we can hear and see (performing arts)
• Things we can hear (poetry)

Makes useful things well

• Designs things through an iterative process
• Tests and learns through failure and success
• Engineers and builds useful things to last

Enjoys play

• Plays with ideas for their own sake
• Plays with others cooperatively, with no material interest
• Enjoys nature and the outdoors

Lives with a sense of wonder

• Expects the extraordinary to be revealed in the ordinary
• Imagines worlds besides our own, through literature and art