Studio Art & Arts Management Program
Centenary’s Art and Visual Culture Department nurtures and values creativity while providing sound training in art analysis, art history, and technical skills.
Contact Information
Professor Jessica Hawkins Chair, Department of Art & Visual Culture 318.841.7273
jhawkins@centenary.edu
Centenary offers a bachelor of arts in Art with two possible concentrations.
Studio Art
The Studio Art concentration fuses studio production with art criticism and theory. Students hone their creative skills in a series of conceptual interdisciplinary studio courses while developing a deep understanding of historical and contemporary artists and artworks.
Arts Management
The Arts Management concentration equips students with skills in communication, marketing, and business administration along with art history and curatorial experiences. Students are prepared for graduate studies as well as careers where creative thinking and cultural awareness are prized, including museums, architecture firms, commercial galleries & auction houses, urban planning firms, tech start-ups, and more.
Unique Opportunities
• Small classes with distinguished faculty members, professional artists, designers, and art historians who present their work both nationally and internationally.
• Opportunity to earn course credit and money through art production for films, apprenticeships, local galleries, and museums, including the oncampus, nationally accredited Meadows Museum of Art.
• Professional-grade studio supplies and equipment coupled with green practices that are normally reserved for graduate programs.
• Solo exhibits for all studio art majors and solo curatorial experiences for all arts management majors - rarely seen on undergraduate resumes.
Sam Hamilton Class of 2020
Earned an MFA in painting at Colorado State University and currently works as a Colorist at Otter Products
“ The rigorous coursework and responsibility I was given at Centenary prepared me well for graduate study. Nothing has been more valuable than the critical thinking skills and creative problem solving that I gained as an undergraduate.”
Ben Green Class of 2017
Earned an M.A. from Parsons School of Design and currently works as a cataloguer at Phillips Auction House in New York City
“ I think my multiple internships at the Meadows Museum as well as my experience curating a show there set me apart in graduate school and on the job market. It gave me certain talking points for future museum internship interviews and helped to demystify some of the logistics that go into putting together an exhibition. At the Meadows, I was trusted to research works in the collection and then write wall panels about the pieces. Four years later, I was doing the same thing at the Whitney Museum of American Art.”
