The application deadline for our MFA program has been extended to March 30, 2012
The primary aim of the art program is to develop the aesthetic awareness and technical proficiency of the individual student in the visual arts. The studio areas offered for concentration are drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, weaving, ceramics and jewelry/metals.
Additionally, papermaking and special topics courses are available. The art major may concentrate in one studio area or work in several areas. In addition, the program offers a variety of studio and art history courses for university students majoring in other fields.
Drawing Inward: German Surrealist Richard Oelze
As a subtle and personal expression of his experience of war, the exhibition of Oelze's drawings will serve as the centerpiece for the War in Society series, affording students and the general public a unique opportunity to view works by an internationally significant artist, whose work stands as an exceptional example of Surrealist art.
Recognized by the Surrealists as a kindred spirit in Paris in the 1930s and part of MoMA's 1936 landmark exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, German artist Richard Oelze (1900-1980) was conscripted into the German army at the age of forty to serve in World War II, an experience that had a profound effect on him and led to the production of many works with imaginary landscapes and fantastic objects and figures in the postwar years. This exhibition highlights the contemporary appeal of his work, by featuring drawings that present his understanding of Surrealist practice, the Germanic tendency towards interiority, and the artist's process of delving inward to explore the workings of the mind, all against the backdrop of postwar Germany's reaction to the atrocities of the National Socialists.
