BA Visual Arts in Art Museum Studies

The Art Museum Studies minor provides students with the skills, experience, and specific professional knowledge necessary to work in the art museum field. The minor balances museum history and theory with practical experience designing and installing exhibitions, and program planning. This minor provides students with a dynamic curriculum that includes field trips to local museums, access to the Chatham Olkes Collection, and applied exhibition practice in the Woodland Art Gallery. Students interact with prominent leaders in the arts community. Directors and curators provide important dialog about art and its institutions, and the role they play in the local, regional, national and international experience.