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Facilities
Rachel Ann Lucas Hall provides well-equipped, health-conscious
studio spaces. Current student
studio work is displayed in Lucas Hall’s Kepler Gallery.
Art history classes meet in the Lucas multi-media classroom
in which digital images, video, DVD, CD-ROM and web-based
presentations enhance lecture material. The Lucas Digital
Studio is furnished with Macintosh computers,
graphics and web-building software, flatbed and transparency
scanners, digital cameras, Wacom drawing tablets
and access to the campus-wide Transparent LAN Internet Service
with a 10Mb line via 10/100 Ethernet connections. High-end
portfolio quality color printing is also available.
Activities
The Department of Art sponsors trips to such locations as Chicago, New York,
Rome, Florence, Paris and Provence. Travel/study courses in
Europe take students to museums and galleries
that house the actual artwork being studied as well as significant
architectural sites. Art majors have also spent a semester
studying in Italy, Cyprus, Germany and Australia.
Mixed Media, the art majors’ student organization, coordinates
gallery trips to major cities and hosts visiting artists on
campus.
Internships
Traditional art internships connect art majors with professional artists and craftspeople in their
studios. University Place Art Center, a non-profit educational
and sales gallery founded by Nebraska Wesleyan University,
offers students hands-on exposure to gallery operations and
management. Students can intern
with professional photographers, honing their
digital image editing and production skills.
Senior Exhibition
All majors exhibit artwork developed for the Senior Exhibition in the professional
Elder Gallery, in the Vance D. Rogers Center for the
Fine Arts. This experience includes planning, promoting,
and opening the gallery exhibition, as well as preparing job-related
resumes and portfolios.
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