Undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered in art education, art history and studio art.
The School of Art offers a long tradition of imagination, skill, thought and achievement in the visual arts. For its students, both current and future, its alumni and its many friends, the School of Art continues to explore ideas, foster the highest standards of craft and stimulate individual and collective creativity through its programs, curriculum and exhibitions. Undergraduate and Graduate degrees are offered in Art Education, Art History and Studio Art. All classrooms and studios are located under one roof in the newly completed Center for the Visual Arts which had its grad opening in 2016.
The School of Art is one of the largest and most comprehensive university art departments in the state and offers the only Master of Fine Arts degree program in Northeast Ohio. Studio Art concentrations include Ceramics, Drawing, Glass, Jewelry/Metals/Enameling, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Textiles.
The School of Art offers a variety of special programming including travel study (New York City, Washington D.C., London/Paris, Florence, China), a renowned visiting artist and scholar program and a fifty-year legacy of the Kent Blossom Art summer intensive studio workshops.
The primary mission of the School of Art is to provide a comprehensive and superior professional education in the study and practice of the visual arts that will complement university studies in the liberal arts, humanities, and sciences.
The School of Art is committed to excellence in curricula and instruction; to liberal education as a necessary ground and complement to the development of perception, intellect, and imagination in the visual arts; to knowledge of art history as a basis for aesthetic sensibility and personal expression; to development of skills in traditional and experimental media; and to the practice and communication of the unity of form, meaning, and value in art and craft.
