CREA defines the arts generously, as both creative arts (dance, design, drama, literature, music and visual arts) and the broader field of liberal arts, which have their historical roots in the quadrivium and trivium. In the quadrivium (‘four ways’), geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and harmonics were studied. In the trivium (‘three ways’), students studied grammar, logic and rhetoric. In more recent times, liberal arts has focused on languages, history, philosophy, pure science and literature. The arts focus of CREA is based on a concept of ‘many ways’ (multivium).

CREA staff and university community with visiting artist, Camille Masson, from France