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Academics: School of Arts & Sciences

Open the doors to art, and art will open doors for you.

Chowan University's Department of Visual Art can open up exciting new worlds of opportunity for you. Museums around the globe might someday be vying for the top dollar price on your latest masterpiece at a major art sale auction. Private collectors could one day be bragging about your priceless works hanging on their walls or in their galleries. Perhaps you will be driving down the highway and see a huge new billboard of your own design, or maybe the shopping malls will be lined with brand logos that you have drawn yourself. Maybe the racks at your favorite bookstore will be full of your cover art concepts, or the magazines will be full of your fascinating advertising campaign. With art, the world is wide open.

Chowan offers a variety of programs to get you well on your way to a successful career in art. With a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Art degree for Studio Arts majors, as well as a B.S. degree in Graphic Design and a B.A. degree in Fine Arts Studies through the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, art students have all their bases certainly covered with Chowan University. Our diverse curriculum, small class sizes, and our sincere commitment to individual attention from our expert faculty and staff make our art department a great place to develop your skills and talents.

The Department of Visual Art's dynamic portfolio review-based program ensures professional growth and development throughout your studies here at Chowan University. This ongoing assessment process requires all art majors to submit a personal portfolio of their works in order to advance to the next level of art courses each academic year, as well as when students first enter the art school program. Graduating seniors must also submit a final portfolio for evaluation prior to graduation.

While you are a student in the Department of Visual Art, you will also gain valuable professional experience through our internship opportunities. Past students have had great success with internship sites like Rawls Museum Arts and Suffolk Museum in Virginia, where many students have actually been asked to continue their employment even after the internships have ended. During the year, students can take class trips to see the various Smithsonian art museums in Washington, DC, and students will also have the chance to study abroad at extravagant locales such as the esteemed Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

The Visual Art department here at Chowan is always active, with regular gallery shows, featured artists, art sales and auctions, student competitions and graduating senior shows, just to name a few of the exciting events that our department has to offer all year long. Located directly on campus, the Green Hall Art Galleries are typically very fun and very popular places to be.

Whether majoring in art or just creating it, Chowan University's Department of Visual Art will prepare you for an exciting future in the fields of design, studio art or research for going into a grad school program. Through highly successful internship programs and highlighting individual talents through various shows and art sales, students will already have their foot in the door of the art world.

Remember- open the doors to art, and art will open doors for you.