The art major at Earlham College is unique because it emphasizes both contemporary craft media, such as ceramics, metalsmithing and fiber art, and more traditional media, such as drawing, painting and photography, along with art history.
Earlham’s Center for the Visual and Performing Arts opened in 2014. This $22 million LEED-certified facility offers separate studio spaces for digital and analog photography, metals, ceramics, painting and drawing, fiber arts, and digital fabrication, each wired for multi-media presentation; plus an art history classroom.
Artists with a historical context and a social mindset
Earlham’s art program provides you with a solid foundation in technique while also providing larger social and cultural contexts for your art. Through the program, you are able to shape your path by choosing art history, ceramics, fibers, metals, painting and drawing, or photography as a primary concentration. The major culminates in a senior capstone experience, a project planned in consultation with faculty that includes an exhibition at an on-campus gallery, the presentation of a research paper, the curation of an exhibition or the completion of a community arts project.
To earn a Bachelor of Arts in Art, you must complete five courses within the major core, an internship or apprenticeship experience, and 6 to 8 courses within your desired concentration.
Core Requirements
Take all the following courses:
Concentration in Studio Art
Three Art History courses:
At least four courses (16 credits) in one area of focus. One of the 2D or 3D core courses may be in the area of focus.
Concentration in Art History
6 Art History courses, which must include:
Interdisciplinary Art Concentration
For the Interdisciplinary Art concentration, students must complete either:
- All the requirements for a Art History concentration, or
- All the requirements for a Studio Art concentration (with one focus area)
And two additional classes in a second studio area or in art history.
Students with the Interdisciplinary Art concentration are expected to integrate both areas into their Senior Capstone under the guidance of the professors in both areas.
To earn a minor in art, you must complete six courses (totaling at least 24 credits), which must include at least one course in Studio Art and at least one course in Art History.
Studio Art Course:
Art History Course:
Course 3:
Course 4:
Course 5:
Course 6: