Art/Visual Arts
Arts and Humanities

Art/Visual Arts is a major for those who:

• question everything, how things look and sound and feel
• experience strong emotions as they watch television and movies
• yearn for unique images
• are always in dialogue with themselves
• turn their engagement with the world into statements made of pottery, stone, steel, charcoal, and paint
• need to express their deep selves visually
• are compelled to represent the self and communicate with others in visual ways

Description
Professors of this major are working artists, so they literally get their hands dirty with the creation of art. Their hands-on approach carries into the classroom, where they encourage students to take risks with various media and with ideas about the deep nature of the world.

Our program in studio art is designed to satisfy personal interest in art, to permit direct involvement in the creative process, and to provide training necessary for graduate study or for a professional career in art. This program also includes courses required for elementary and secondary licensure in art education.

Courses required for Art/Visual Arts major

Early hands-on experience is stressed in this program, and some of the equipment for this experiential learning includes a darkroom, pottery wheels and kilns, a foundry, and an etching press. The teaching faculty are practicing professionals who regularly show and sell their work at galleries across the country. Recent graduates of the program are now working as freelance illustrators, commercial artists, and as elementary and secondary art teachers.