• The University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts offers a four years undergraduate degree in Visual Arts which is concerned with the making of art as a vehicle for exploring creativity, expression, perception, and the constructed world.
  • Students develop communicative, analytical, and expressive skills through the process of artistic production.
  • Graduates learn about visual communication through the manipulation of various traditional and non-art materials.
  • ll of college Visual Arts teaching underscores the fact that perception involves the complex interaction of the senses and the intellect as reflected in art and in our understanding of the larger visual world.
  • Teaching students to see critically through making images is as integral to our practice as textual analysis is central to academic practice.
  • College course of study develops a powerful set of means which allows students to become sensitive and consciously aware of phenomena such as the relative nature of color; the particular measure of space - both real and illusionistic; and the ways in which our perceptual experiences give meaning to forms in the visual field.
  • As these means are acquired, the visual world fuses with the world of ideas, becoming a site of aesthetic pleasure, philosophical inquiry, social critique, political activism, and psychological understanding.