The Art department’s mission is to train artists, art historians, and visual arts
administrators, as well as to provide
service courses for non-art majors. Through
our courses, we aspire to build an appreciation for the rich interchange of
images and ideas that can happen between art and other academic disciplines.
Our graduates in art have been encouraged to consider their future professional
role in the context of both the contemporary world and the historical world.
Besides a reverence for art history, they have been taught appropriate skills of
mind, hand, and eye. They have been helped to find the next steps in their life
journey, and have been challenged to be the best they can be in their
chosen specialty.
Aquinas Sculpture Professor Ron Pederson was named 2008 Educator
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