Wake Forest University (Department of Art )

Located in Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University, the Art Department offers a wide range of experience for students in the visual arts. Studio Art includes courses such as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, digital art and photography. The Art History courses encompass past and present civilizations that provide a solid foundation for Art majors.

The Department has unusually fine resources for an undergraduate art program. There are excellent studio facilities for printmaking, painting, drawing, and sculpture. The art history classrooms are designed for traditional slide and computer/video multimedia instruction. Art majors are encouraged to study art at one of the Wake Forest Study Abroad Programs . The Department oversees the numerous University Art Collections and houses a superb Visual Resourses library. The modern art gallery keeps students, faculty and the public in tune with the art world's current trends with its varied and changing exhibitions .


History of Department

In 1976 the Art Department at Wake Forest University moved into its own space in a brand new building, the Scales Fine Arts Center. The year also marked the first year that an art major was offered at Wake Forest and the true beginnings of a new phase of the Art Department. Now, twenty years later, there are over 50 art majors and minors. There are currently some nine resident faculty members with adjunct faculty in Venice, London, and Vienna. The curriculum has also expanded and now includes a full range of offerings in art history from ancient to contemporary as well as studio courses in drawing and design, painting, printmaking, sculpture, digital art, and photography. As an integral part of the overall liberal arts curriculum at Wake Forest, the Art Department emphasizes critical thinking at all levels of instruction. While many art majors in both studio and art history have gone one to graduate school and then to productive careers specifically in the arts, equally as many have gone on to pursue careers in business, medicine, law or other professions outside the field of art.

Wake Forest prides itself on its undergraduate teaching, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Art Department where one-to-one instruction is the rule rather than the exception. Students have the opportunity to curate exhibitions, write catalogues, and work with professors on overseas research projects. Every four years there is the opportunity for a small group of students to go to New York to select and purchase contemporary art which becomes part of the Student Union Collection displayed in the Benson Center. Students can also gain practical experience by working in our Scales Fine Arts Center Art Gallery or during internships at local museums such as the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, or the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem. Many opporunities for study abroad are available, including semester residencies at Wake Forest campuses at Worrell House in London, Flow Haus in Vienna, and Casa Artom adjacent to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum on the Grand Canal in Venice. Students in the studio area work closely with our own faculty as well as with visiting artists on special projects. Each spring there is a juried student exhibition as well as individual Honors exhibitions, and from these exhibitions works are purchased which are added to the permanent university collection and are displayed in the main administration building, Reynolda Hall.

The Art Department is continually incorporating new technologies into the way it teaches while maintaining an emphasis on traditional skills and critical thinking. Students in art history are able to access digital images for study or use state-of-the art classroom presentation equipment for special projects, while students in the studio area use the Art Department's Digital Studio to create images, multimedia and web-based materials related to courses ranging from beginning design classes to more advanced classes in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and digital art. In a time of rapid changes in the way we communicate visually, the Wake Forest University Art Department is meeting the challenge to move with the times.


Studio Art

For the studio art major twenty-four hours are to be in studio art and six hours in art history. The required studio art courses include four entry level courses—one in three-dimensional art and three selected from the five two-dimensional areas; two second level courses in different areas; a third semester in a studio art concentration; and electives in studio art.
A minor in studio art requires twelve hours in studio art and three hours in art history. Any student interested in majoring or minoring in art should consult the chair of the department.
Students with a special interest in multimedia development may wish to consider a program of study that combines digital art and computer science. Advisors in either the art or computer science departments can provide further information on coordinating an art major with a computer science minor, or vice versa.


Art History

For the art history major twenty-four hours are to be in art history and six hours in studio art. The required art history courses include one course in Ancient, Classical or Medieval art; one course in Renaissance, Baroque, or Eighteenth Century art; one course in Modern painting, architecture, photography, or film; Art 394 Issues in Art History; one art history seminar; and electives. Art history majors are encouraged to take Art 103 and a course in non-western art.
An art history minor requires twelve hours in art history and three hours in studio art.

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