Art & Art History Program
CALL FOR ENTRIES: PROCESSOR: A Juried Regional M.F.A. Exhibition
The liberal arts, as their name implies, are fields of study that nurture the mind's freedom. Freedom--to know, to choose, to act--is one of our culture's most cherished ideals, and it endures in a special way in the activity of the artist. That representative societies attempt to control or suppress the artist's work is no accident; this work stands for the very possibility of freedom, in the mind's ability to envision and motivate the making of tangible alternatives to ordinary experience.
Contemporary Culture takes for granted the liberating effect of verbal literacy, but all too often visual literacy has been neglected, and, therefore, misunderstood or ignored as an exercise of intellectual freedom. This area encompasses the visible environment we create for ourselves no less than the inner world of the imagination. At Dickinson, we give full value to the sense of living tradition and the special problem-solving skills to be acquired from an understanding of the artist's work; thus, we study art seriously, historically as well as through actual making.
Students graduating with a major in Art & Art History have become scholars in colleges and universities and teachers in elementary and secondary schools. They also have become museum curators, professional photographers, ceramists, medical illustrators and art therapists.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: PROCESSOR: A Juried Regional M.F.A. Exhibition
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