»Events and Exhibits

Throughout the year, our design program hosts a dynamic range of events and exhibitions that create student work, foster industry connections, and spark creative dialogue. From professional symposiums and guest lectures to student showcases and gallery exhibitions, these experiences enrich learning and build community within and beyond the classroom.

The Department of Art hosts lectures every semester designed for students to explore visual culture from a wide range of art professional across disciplines offering opportunities to learn, be inspired, and network. Recent scholars and artist include: April Bey, Mark Steger, Nancy Baker Cahill, Amy Adler, Ken Gonzales-Day, Monique van Genderen, Dr. Nizan Shaked, Rachel Mason, Curtis Santiago, A.L. Steiner, Andrea Bowers, and Zachary Drucker.

While most studio classes include sections on the presentation of art, our students study history, theory and day-to-day business of running a gallery and curation through courses such as ART 296 Contemporary Gallery Practice and ART 384 Curatorial Practice. Students will interact directly with Museum Curators, Gallerists, Gallery Directors and Artists, learning first-hand about the presentation of artwork in professional settings, such as museums, commercial galleries, non-profit art spaces and artist-run galleries. 

In our campus gallery and project spaces, students have the opportunity to experiment with the learned concepts of their individual ideas curating their own exhibitions (including the "Departmental", a juried exhibition, each semester) and producing accompanying material, such as press releases, exhibition essays and exhibition documentation.

The What is Art Club? is an official campus organization and provides a great opportunity for studio art majors to collaborate with each other and with students from across campus on artistic activities, field trips, guest speakers, movie screenings, sketchbook nights, and more.