2024-2025 Hope College Catalog
Art and Art History
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The Department of Art and Art History is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The department offers concentrations in studio, art history, and visual arts education, and is one of the elite departments in the nation accredited in all three of these areas.
About The Program
Course offerings in the Department of Art and Art History are structured in form, content and sequence to provide a foundation in the fine arts for both the art student and the liberal arts student. The curriculum affords opportunities for study and creative work in the visual arts through studio practice and art history.
The Department of Art and Art History faculty members are teaching, producing and research oriented artists and art historians.
The department offers assistantships to qualified upper level students.
Students majoring in art and art history at Hope College participate in a wide variety of activities:
- Apprenticeships in New York City and Chicago
- Contact with visiting artists and lecturers of national importance
- Field trips to museums, such as those in Chicago and Detroit
- Exhibition experience in the DePree Gallery
- Entrance in competitive shows
- Funded summer research opportunities with department faculty and the Borgeson Artist in Residence
- Varied contact with other college art departments
Graduates of this department have gone into the following areas:
- Graduate work in studio and art history
- Practicing fine arts, sculpture, painting, printmaking and photography
- Teaching in the college, secondary and elementary levels
- Graphic design industry
- Furniture design industry
- Arts administration
- Art gallery management
- Museum work
- Publishing industry
- Auction houses
ProgramsMajorsMinorsCoursesArt: Studio ArtArt: Art History
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