Students majoring in art or wishing to broaden their understanding of the creative process, aesthetics and history of art, are provided with an environment for the best possible education in the visual arts within the context of a liberal arts education. Our facilities include recently renovated digital photo labs and traditional darkrooms, spacious painting and drawing studios, a well-equipped graphic design studio with large-screen iMacs and a tabloid color laser printer, a recently built woodshop for sculpture and ceramics and printmaking studios filled with natural light.

Monthly exhibits in the O’Connor Gallery, lectures by visiting artists, field trips to Chicago galleries and museums and ongoing critiques promote critical thinking and creative development. Teaching certification is available through the School of Education.

Above all, students will be taught by our faculty who are passionate about art.

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The major in graphic design is a sequence of courses that teaches the process of creative problem solving through design. By integrating concept development and artistic practice with technology, students acquire an understanding of the art of visual communication as preparation for professional employment in the field of graphic design or for graduate study.

Classes are held in our professional Digital Media Center. The DMC is equipped with 20” flat-panel Apple Macintosh computers loaded with Adobe CS3 design software (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash and Dreamweaver.) The DMC has a tabloid format color laser printer, dedicated flatbed and film scanners and an Epson large-format photo inkjet printer. In addition the university Tech Center is fully equipped with flat-panel Apple Macintosh computers.

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