The department, through the comprehensive vision of the faculty, seeks to establish the educational, scientific, cultural, and aesthetic role of art in society by training distinguished personnel concerned with social and environmental issues.

The department contributes with its five artistic fields to preparing students for both undergraduate and graduate levels to become artist-educators using artistic and educational methods, developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and enhancing students' awareness and understanding of future challenges through programs and the study of various courses and the preparation of research in the five diverse artistic fields (artwork, metalwork, woodwork, printing, and hand weaving), in line with the contemporary vision and philosophy of art education. Which primarily relies on a heritage study of folk arts, crafts, and traditional industries from a contemporary perspective that meets the demands of daily life with modern technology. The diversity in studying these fields with their craft and industrial origins allows students to express themselves using multiple materials within a single work. Additionally, it involves the use of materials, methods, techniques, and artistic treatments with skillful use of hand tools and instruments that facilitate innovative expression without hindrance, opening new horizons for cultural inputs, achieving aesthetic and functional values that align with the nature of the era, and meeting the requirements of sustainable development.

The study of popular heritage (both Egyptian and human) through practice and experimentation with materials within the department works to achieve more solutions to the formal problems that students may encounter. This is done within a complex intellectual framework that leads to the development of the creative process and engagement in experimental practices that address social and environmental issues and foster a sense of citizenship at the national, regional, and global levels.