Diversity
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write...what one can, one must."
- Abraham Maslow
Citizenship
"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity."
- M. P. Mussorgsky
Technology
"Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
Entrepreneurship
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
- Emile Zola
"In the early 21st Century, it is more apparent than ever that artistic knowledge is sought after and required not only in visual and performing areas, but also in industry, business, media, communications, merchandising, and in entrepreneurial enterprises..." ---Jim Lentini
Samantha Doan, senior art major, receives international award
Art students' work selected for international exhibition
Susan Ewing, Miami University Distinguished Professor of Art, is recipient of the Pamela Morris Thomford Award for Excellence in Metals
Derek Reeverts, graduate student in Art, selected for national competition
Hsing-lin Tracy Chung, guest faculty in the Department of Theatre, will direct Jingju (Beijing Opera) version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew this fall
Joomi Chung, Faculty Department of Art, newest work Signoscope-Signoscape V: Vortices is featured on the UMASS Art Department website
Katherine Crowley, BFA, 1999, Graphic Design, finalist in the National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington D.C) design competition
Dept of Architecture and Interior Design alumni David Sobol (B.A. in Architecture) has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Finland
Men's Glee Club in China to perform for pre-Olympic festivities
A welcome from Dr. James Lentini, Dean of the School of Fine Arts
Meet Clifton McNish, Director of Outreach and Diversity for the School of Fine Arts