The Department of Art and Art History offers a curriculum that is equally appropriate for those who plan serious careers in studio art or in art history and for those who want to expand their knowledge of the visual world.

A major in Studio Art or in Art History acquires the background required to attend graduate school or to become a professional artist. Students develop the creative and critical skills necessary to pursue a life of making art or to undertake a life of scholarship and teaching. Students are also well prepared for careers in gallery, museum, and arts administration.

What Can You Do With A Major in Art Studio or Art History

The most basic answer to the question, “What do you do with a major in art studio or art history?” is to take lifelong pleasure and achieve personal enrichment by creating, viewing, and understanding art in a historical context. A major in Art Studio and Art History also prepares students for a variety of different careers, and our graduates follow many different and exciting paths. The following list gives just a few examples of the kinds of professional work our majors are doing, from the recent graduates to those well established professionally.

Examples of professional artists:

*Established artists in a variety of media who regularly exhibit work in juried exhibitions in Portland and around the nation.

* Fine Arts Framer

*Art Handler

Examples of museum and gallery work:

*Director of Denver Museum of Art.

*Partner, Shepherd Galleries in New York.

*Founder of Haboldt Galleries, New York and Paris

* Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland

*Publications Manager and Graphic Designer for the newly named and relocated Museum of Contemporary Crafts in Portland.

*Founder of Gallery 500 in Portland.

Examples of journalism and filmmaking:

*Photojournalist. Featured in Aperture this past year and has published essays in Photo District News, the New York Times, and Time Magazine.

*Documentary Filmmaker. Documented the impact of the Hanford Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Depot.

*Assistant at Mirabella Studios

*Provides visual references for commercial, film, and music video directors in Los Angeles.

Examples of teaching and graduate work:

*Professor of Art History at Loyola University, Chicago.

*Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Wichita State University, Kansas

*Art Department Chair and Professor of Ceramics at Rowen University, NJ

*MFA in photography from Columbia College in Chicago.

*MFA in sculpture from Portland State University.

*MFA in Ceramics at the University of Tennessee

*MFA in Ceramics at the University of Arizona

*MFA in Sculpture at Chico State

*MFA in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate School of Art

*MFA in Sculpture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

*MFA Pennsylvania Academy of Art

*MA in Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

*MA in Architecture, University of Oregon

Examples of art in business:

*Public Relations Manager at Groth Vineyards, Napa Valley

*Interior Design

*Sustainable Architecture firm

*Landscape Architecture

Lewis & Clark College
Department of Art, MSC 92
0615 Palatine Hill Road
Portland, Oregon 97219

location: Fields Center for Visual Arts
phone: 503-768-7390
fax: 503-768-7401
e-mail: art@lclark.edu
department chair: Benjamin David