Department of Art & Art History

  • Concerned that only 61% of Native American youth graduate high school and only 12% finish college, Professor Tracy Taylor began Gear Up with Alice, a summer workshop for Lakota Sioux teenagers living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Taylor has also visited the reservation with students, helping to continue the program.

With faculty from the Department of Art and Art History, you will experience art as you create it and analyze it. You will thoughtfully study history, aesthetics, and other areas of the humanities alongside your practice in techniques and medium. While learning about the physicality of creating art you will also analyze the cultural impact art has had in history and in your everyday life.

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Though majors and minors in art will opt for primary study in studio art or art history, all art students will not only know art when they see it, they’ll be able to tell you what makes a piece of art unique, creative, interesting, relevant — and why.

Art Events

Thursday, February 9

  • Image preview 7:00pm - 8:00pm: Portraits 4 People: Artist Presentation
    Artist, ML Frank, discusses her work using photography, not simply as a means to produce an image, but as an interaction between photographer and subject: photography as conversation.

Wednesday, February 15

Thursday, February 16

  • 7:30pm: Wafaa Bilal Gallery Debut
    Artist in Residence, Bilal, will debut two new artworks, “The Comfort Zone” and “The American.”