The art curriculum is designed to allow students to develop skills in several different artistic media, including painting, printmaking, ceramics, drawing, watercolor, sculpture, photography, and crafts. During their senior year, art students arrange their shows for public display in the Robert W. Regier Gallery in the Luyken Fine Arts Center.
Study Abroad
Every four years, the Department of Art offers Selected Topics in Art History (ART435), which concludes with a study-abroad trip, most recently in 2019. The focus is on the Italian Renaissance (one of the cornerstones of Western civilization) and on investigating major artistic traditions in greater depth than is possible in art history survey courses. Weekly lectures during the semester leading up to the trip explore the period, its religious and political atmosphere, and its artists. Then, for 15 days, class participants travel throughout Italy – stepping back in time to tour the streets of Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence, Siena, and Rome and to view works created by Giotto, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and others. The course grade is based on a written term paper or creative project and a daily travel journal or sketchbook.
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