Visual literacy and visual acuity – looking with awareness and intention – are fundamental to liberal arts education. The Art and Visual Culture Department offers courses in studio practice and in the ...

This course approaches drawing as a way of thinking and seeing. Students will be introduced to a range of drawing issues, as well as a variety of media, including charcoal, graphite, ink, and oil ...

Creativity is more than talent. It’s the ability to see the world in new ways and make others feel it too. The Top 10 Most Creative Artists of 2025 celebrates individuals who are doing just that.

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather they are the products of artists who have used their insights into the workings of the human eyes and brain to create illusions ...

This program aims directly at enabling the whole artist: body, mind, and spirit. We foster the development of soulful artists who make art to nurture and to challenge all that is best in human life.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The style, in the artist’s ...

Sweater weather is fast approaching, and Seattle’s galleries and museums are about to head into the season with exhibitions that tackle politics, identity, and the environment alongside work that ...

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales (Santo Domingo), 20 Aug. - 30 Oct. 2007. One hundred and fourteen pieces of award-winning Dominican Republic art selected to be ...

Derek Conrad Murray, Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC), has recently been appointed editor-in-chief of Art Journal. After previously serving on the journal’s editorial board, Murray ...

Speed artists typically combine painting and performance to execute large portraits within the space of a few minutes. President Trump has taken a shine to one. Speed artists typically combine ...

Professors Balco (chair) and Rand (Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies); Associate Professors González Valencia and Nguyen; Assistant Professor Boomer (Art and Visual Culture, ...