Why LEAP?
Learning here is experiential and relational. Students engage as motivated agents, with their bodies as instruments of making, and with materials as something to be read, tested, and understood.
Environment means working within what is locally available: no commercial kits, no imported supplies, no barrier of cost or access. The environment is the studio/laboratory/classroom.
Art is the transformation from the ordinary to the extraordinary. This program does not consider art as decoration but as a mode of thinking available to everyone.
Practice signals that this program has no graduation point. Skills, habits of observation, and creative confidence accumulate over time. The aim is not a finished product but a continuously developing person.