Art Major Art Minor
AUC Art Collective
Art History Major Art History Minor
Curatorial Studies Minor
Documentary Filmmaking Major
Documentary Filmmaking Minor
Art Major Art Minor
AUC Art Collective
Art History Major Art History Minor
Curatorial Studies Minor
Documentary Filmmaking Major
Documentary Filmmaking Minor
Art is the creative expression of ideas, personal identity, and culture that enriches the world in which we live. It builds community, offers new perspectives, and provides unique insight to diverse traditions, philosophies and history.
AVC Majors
AVC Majors
AVC Minors
Students are provided with the knowledge and skills to effectively create art and understand it as visual rhetoric with histories, traditions and emerging theories that critique and advance the field.
Creating original work using various digital technologies in the Innovation Lab further enhances the majors. The department supports intellectual curiosity, experimentation, and highlights art making and its relationship to aesthetic, civic, cultural, social systems and technology.
In addition to understanding and making art, students will develop skills related to the entrepreneurial side of the arts.
The department serves Spelman students by providing aesthetic, technical, historical and philosophical instruction in visual art and culture while supporting the liberal arts tradition of the College. It promotes excellence in the arts through a curricular framework rooted in the theory and practice of art as it relates to visual language systems and social and cultural engagement.
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