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Art Major Art Minor
AUC Art Collective
Art History Major Art History Minor
Curatorial Studies Minor
Documentary Filmmaking Major
Documentary Filmmaking Minor

Art Major Art Minor
AUC Art Collective
Art History Major Art History Minor
Curatorial Studies Minor
Documentary Filmmaking Major
Documentary Filmmaking Minor

Develop Your Creative Genius at Spelman


Art is the creative expression of ideas, personal identity, and culture that enriches the world in which we live. It builds community, offers new perspectives, and provides unique insight to diverse traditions, philosophies and history.

What We Offer in Art and Visual Culture

AVC Majors

  • Art Major
  •  Art History Major
  • Documentary Filmmaking Major
  • Photography Major
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AVC Majors

  • Art Major
  •  Art History Major
  • Documentary Filmmaking Major
  • Photography Major

AVC Minors

  • Art Art History Minor
  • Curatorial Studies Minor
  • Game Design and DevelopmentMinor
  • Interactive Media Minor
  • Documentary Filmmaking Minor
  • Photography Minor

Students are provided with the knowledge and skills to effectively create art and understand it as visual rhetoric with histories, traditions and emerging theories that critique and advance the field.

Creating original work using various digital technologies in the Innovation Lab further enhances the majors. The department supports intellectual curiosity, experimentation, and highlights art making and its relationship to aesthetic, civic, cultural, social systems and technology.

In addition to understanding and making art, students will develop skills related to the entrepreneurial side of the arts.

Discover Excellence in the Arts

The department serves Spelman students by providing aesthetic, technical, historical and philosophical instruction in visual art and culture while supporting the liberal arts tradition of the College. It promotes excellence in the arts through a curricular framework rooted in the theory and practice of art as it relates to visual language systems and social and cultural engagement.

Objectives

  • As an art and visual culture major you will be able to:
  • Understand the role of the artist within historical and contemporary contexts.
  • Use creative practices and research skills as a means of exploring interdisciplinary methods of inquiry that promote excellence in the arts.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in the skills necessary for success in graduate school and/or the professional workplace.
  • Demonstrate the potential for a lifelong appreciation and understanding of the visual arts through classroom as well as co-curricular experiences.
  • Apply educational, experiential and experimental knowledge to further an appreciation of the arts.
film students