The Department of Art & Design's programs are designed to help you cultivate a rich and dynamic relationship to art while providing the real-world skills and perspective required to pursue a career in the visual arts.

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​In the Department of Art & Design at CMU, you have the opportunity to take a variety of courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, graphic design, and animation. 

Foundational coursework is intended to provide you with a hands-on understanding of the principles of art, as well as a critical perspective of art in practice and as a profession. In conjunction with foundational course requirements, you are able to take classes specific to your interests. Here is where you will acquire a first-hand understanding of materials and emerging technologies related to your field of interest.

As you begin to develop a relationship to materials and tools, you'll be encouraged to work across disciplines and consider your role as a designer and maker in context to the world around you, potentially leading to careers in animation, graphic design, photography, studio art, art education, and art history.

The Art & Design program is NASAD Accredited


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Congrats to Alumni David Birkham for earning the Western Michigan University School of Communication Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award for 2021. He was also selected to present a paper at the Central States Communication Association in March


Congrats to Kate Kinder, lecturer in painting and drawing. She is having a one-person exhibition titled Adidas & Bustello at 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida opening March 5, 2021. She says about the work “The subject matter I am including in a body of new paintings act as a mirror of our human environments. Portrayed as fields of wobbly mugs on shelves, vegetation, indoor pools, patterns, and the human body, I am looking at our theoretical and physical, visual relationship to objects. The paintings are acting as platforms of inquiry for philosophies such as Object Oriented Ontology, however, I deeply appreciate them simply as paintings, too.”