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The Division of Art educates students within our liberal arts university to become productive in the fields of art. We value artistic excellence in the forms of rigorous inquiry, outstanding production and professional success. We believe that art made in this way moves freely among disciplines and finds its place in a national and international environment. We recruit the best students and faculty to create a community seeking knowledge, to nurture commitment to the study of art across a wide spectrum, and to provide a guiding force in society.

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SMU Art is For You!

Student Organized Art Collective Hosts Student-Run, Shakespeare-Inspired Exhibition

The Student Organized Art Collective (SOAC) is an organization run by and for student artists, providing community and the opportunity to professionally display their work.

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Featured Courses

ASAG 1300

Observation

Students experiment with various media while exploring the history, theory, and application of these resources of representation in visual art; they learn the differences among looking, scanning, and seeing; and they encounter a range of resources, from theories of perspective in drawing and painting through 3–D modeling and digital simulations of reality.

ASAG 5310

Professional Practice

Students learn how to negotiate the professional aspects of art and to identify and take advantage of a host of opportunities. Topics include establishing a studio; applying for residencies and grants; exhibiting work; intellectual property law; the contemporary art market; and alternative models of production, distribution, and exchange of art.

ASAG 5315

Advanced Studio II

A forum for art majors in the fourth year of studies that facilitates the students’ ability to articulate their work as artists and to defend and present it in a peer-group setting. Serves as a culmination of the study of art through the production of a body of work for exhibition.

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