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Northwest Missouri State University

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About Us

The Department of Art offers students the opportunity to learn to communicate ideas effectively, to develop analytical skills, to synthesize ideas, to evaluate implications of present actions against historical perspective, and to develop discriminating aesthetic judgments. The department has among its quality objectives:

  1. to provide an environment conducive to learning and creative production;
  2. to develop an understanding and sensitivity to the visual arts of the past and present;
  3. to prepare students for careers in the visual arts including the teaching of art;
  4. to furnish the students with sufficient mastery of technical skills to allow for future independent development and creative production; and
  5. to prepare students for advanced study in the visual arts.