The Department of Art is committed to shaping the next generation of artists, designers, critics, and creative thinkers. The department is home to multiple disciplines including visual arts, art history, and architecture. Our students explore a great variety of artistic practices, both traditional and emerging, before concentrating in one of our disciplines.

The Department of Art also serves the university by introducing students to the history, theory and practice of the arts in courses of augmenting degrees of complexity. In their creative and written work, students learn to understand, creatively produce, and critically participate in the symbolic, social and physical spaces that constitute the human environment. Dedicated to exploring the creative practices at the forefront of our disciplines, we believe that art and design not only mirror the society in which they are produced, but also shape it: we are most interested in art’s potential to offer a critique of culture, and embody in the present that which is yet to become.