— Heidi Nielsen '96, COO Brink Communications
Unleash your creativity through innovation, experimentation and exploration in a wide range of specialty areas.
Students gain hands-on experience with artistic technologies as they complete independent and collaborative artistic research and projects.
The broad-based curriculum includes study of art forms from around the world, women in art, and explorations in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and ceramics. The art program culminates in a presentation of an original body of work in gallery, lecture and portfolio formats as a senior capstone.
“I feel pretty strongly about a liberal arts education. I think the opportunity it provides you to become a critical thinker, and the opportunity it provides you to gain a wide variety of experiences, is really important."
Major in Fine Arts
The art major explores personal expression and interpretation to investigate aesthetic boundaries and to develop concepts relevant in today’s world. The program also offers a minor in art.
Explore Our Art Studios
Pacific University’s art studios are a hidden gem on campus. As an art major or minor, you’ll learn how to use tools like 3D printers, laser cutter/engravers, CNC routers and a full suite of woodshop tools. In the 2D studio, you’ll have access to plenty of space for painting and drawing, a printmaking a photo studio with a new Conrad intaglio press and silkscreens, a digital photo lab, and a traditional darkroom.
Art Careers
Our graduates are professional artists and photographers, landscape designers, illustrators, teachers, gallery directors and art therapists. Many art students pursue graduate school while others pursue business opportunities, such as starting art galleries and working in design firms.
Headlines
Alyson Provax is a text based artist. Her primary medium is letterpress and she often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals. This calls into question the didactic certainty of text and can cause the viewer to notice the experience of reading. She is interested in the ways that we communicate things we are a bit uncertain of and how we tie our understanding of ourselves to language.
"Interconnected" features the work of three graduating seniors from the Art Department.
An exhibition of vibrant photographs to celebrate the career and retirement of beloved music professor Scott Tuomi.