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Explore traditional and contemporary means of making as you prepare for a career in the creative field.
Student cleans metal
Students paint in studio
Student and professor work together on metal work design
Student saws design on copper
Professor demonstrates how to glaze pots after raku firing
Student glazes pot after raku firing
Student dips pottery into bucket after raku firing
Student poses next to her original artwork
Student looks up while sketching in studio
Students work with visiting artist
Student mixes paints on palette while working in studio
Student primes metal
Students and professor give feedback to a student's drawing
Student paints on canvas
Raku-fired pottery
Student poses in front of her original artwork
Pamela Erhardt, alumna and visiting artist, instructs class
Professor provides feedback
Student sketches outside
Student pulls pottery out of raku firing
Student draw outside
Three students create raku firing
Professor instructs printmaking students
Three students sketch outside
Outdoor ceramics kiln
Students firing ceramics outdoors
Student tending to raku kiln
Student paints in studio
Visiting artist demonstrates work
Student pulls ceramics out of raku kiln
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Ursuline’s Art and Design program gives you the opportunity to explore a variety of traditional and digital means of making work. In our non-competitive studio environment, you’ll be free to make mistakes, embrace risk, and share your stories and ideas.
Foundation courses in drawing, painting, photography and three-dimensional work will help you acquire new technical skills, develop your sense of perception and understand principles of design. Art history electives will re-frame your thinking about the context of art and design, and advanced courses will enable you to bring your work to a new level. Finally, because broad knowledge is essential to making meaningful, socially engaged work, you'll hone your intellect in the Ursuline Core Curriculum. You'll have more to say, and you'll say it through art and design.
Students may choose a 3+3 Bridge to the Master's in Counseling and Art Therapy Program. Contact the department chair, Sr. Rosaria Perna, OSU, MFA, for details.
The critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills you will gain in Ursuline’s Art and Design major can be applied to graduate studies, many different careers, or to art or design practice in your own studio. Your exposure to using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign will make you a valuable member of a corporate or nonprofit marketing team.
The Art and Design program pairs well with Ursuline’s new 4+1 approach to teacher preparation. On this pathway, you would major in Art and Design and take certain Education courses in your four undergraduate years. Then you’d spend a fifth year earning a master’s degree in education and preparing for certification.
