The program offered by provides interdisciplinary approaches to the practice of art and the study of visual culture. Students have the opportunity to put their ideas into form while becoming visually literate, historically grounded, and familiar with the diversity of arts and cultures worldwide.
Strengths of the program
- Learn from studio faculty who are practicing artists and scholars and exhibit regularly in the Northwest, nationally, and internationally.
- Art history faculty whose research engages relevant 21st-century issues with an international breadth.
- The Forst Visiting Artist/Scholar Endowment brings diverse artists to the Pullman campus for various interactions with students each semester.
- Undergraduate students manage one of the department’s two galleries in the WSU Museum of Art in Pullman and assist with the Art Center on the Tri-Cities campus.
- The WSU Museum of Art is one of the top five museums in the Northwest, including annual faculty and MFA thesis exhibitions.
- State-of-the-art facilities for metal and wood fabrication, ceramics, printmaking, black-and-white photography, and digital media.
Career
- Artist
- Art historian
- Designer
- Museum and gallery professional
- Educator
- Research specialist
- Film, video, and sound artist, designer, or technician
- Public arts administrator or curator
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