Nebraska Wesleyan University (Department of Art)

The liberal arts provide the foundation for the in-depth exploration of art and design.

The Art Department at Nebraska Wesleyan University offers a B.A. with a major in art and B.F.A. degrees with a major in studio art or digital media. Students in all majors study from selected studio courses in ceramics, digital media, drawing, metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and art history.


Fields of Study

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
A B.A. with a major in art is a broad-based liberal arts degree that can lead to graduate study in art, art history, art therapy, or other academic areas. Students wishing to teach art in elementary or secondary schools typically pursue the B.A. in art and receive a field endorsement in art through the Nebraska Department of Education.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Students may choose to pursue a B.F.A. with a major in studio art or digital media. Majors will graduate with portfolios that prepare them to pursue the M.F.A., the terminal studio art degree, or art-related careers.


Opportunities

Facilities
Rachel Ann Lucas Hall provides well-equipped, health-conscious studio spaces. Current student studio work is displayed in Lucas Hall’s Kepler Gallery. Art history classes meet in the Lucas multi-media classroom in which digital images, video, DVD, CD-ROM and web-based presentations enhance lecture material. The Lucas Digital Studio is furnished with Macintosh computers, graphics and web-building software, flatbed and transparency scanners, digital cameras, Wacom drawing tablets and access to the campus-wide Transparent LAN Internet Service with a 10Mb line via 10/100 Ethernet connections. High-end portfolio quality color printing is also available.

Activities
The Department of Art sponsors trips to such locations as Chicago, New York, Rome, Florence, Paris and Provence. Travel/study courses in Europe take students to museums and galleries that house the actual artwork being studied as well as significant architectural sites. Art majors have also spent a semester studying in Italy, Cyprus, Germany and Australia. Mixed Media, the art majors’ student organization, coordinates gallery trips to major cities and hosts visiting artists on campus.

Internships
Traditional art internships connect art majors with professional artists and craftspeople in their studios. University Place Art Center, a non-profit educational and sales gallery founded by Nebraska Wesleyan University, offers students hands-on exposure to gallery operations and management. Students can intern with professional photographers, honing their digital image editing and production skills.

Senior Exhibition
All majors exhibit artwork developed for the Senior Exhibition in the professional Elder Gallery, in the Vance D. Rogers Center for the Fine Arts. This experience includes planning, promoting, and opening the gallery exhibition, as well as preparing job-related resumes and portfolios.


Outcomes

Recent Art Department graduates have pursued master’s and doctoral degrees in studio art, art history, and art therapy in some of the nation’s most prestigious schools, including:

* The Rhode Island School of Design
* Brown University
* Cranbrook Academy of Art
* University of Iowa
* University of Wisconsin at Madison

Nebraska Wesleyan studio art graduates are employed in a wide variety of professional fields; many have opened and maintained succesful self-sustaining studio art businesses.

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