Student Opportunities

Art is an incredibly diverse and far-reaching degree. Students can start out right after graduation, or have the foundation for further studies, in the following fields:

• Art Editor or Consultant
• Museum / Institutional / Independent Curator
• Gallery Owner, Manager or Director
• Collection Archivist
• Art Educator
• Art Advocate
• Art Auctioneer
• Graphic Designer
• Web Designer
• Photographer
• Art Historian
• Entrepreneur
• Art Therapist
• Art Critic
• Interior Designer
• Landscape Architect
• Museum Docent
• Studio Artist

…among any number of other callings involving deliberate and informed visual decision-making.

• Small classes.
• Strong Foundations: Art History and Design and Studio courses interact with liberal arts classes and faith perspectives throughout the program.
• Approachable,  challenging,  sought-after, widely exhibited faculty who hold degrees in the discipline they teach.
• There is always coffee brewing in the Art & Design Department!
• There is a sense of community here. We are not so HUGE that we do not know each other’s names. The sharing of our work together is part of what brings us closer.
• Individual studios for junior and senior art majors, as space allows.
• Critique Sessions –  You exercise critical judgment of your and others’ works in regular directed study critique sessions.
• Senior Exhibit – As a studio art student, you mount an exhibition of a body of work in the college gallery or other designated on-campus space.
• Senior Art History Presentations – By completing the art history emphasis, you publicly present research at the annual art history symposium on-campus or at a local museum or gallery; you also may choose to guest-curate a show on-campus or off-campus.
• Faculty Mentoring – As an art student, you can enjoy exceptional mentoring via contained class sizes, faculty advisors, Junior Review, and weekly directed study meetings with professors during your junior and senior years.
• Art Trips – You can take advantage of regularly scheduled departmental trips to major art collections in Lexington, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
• Our Surrounding Landscape – Asbury University is surrounded by the beautiful Bluegrass Region of central Kentucky where rock fences, winding roads and wide open spaces abound. We are less than 15 minutes from cultural events and important art collections to view and study. It is the perfect balance of rural, unspoiled beauty with cultural centrality that makes Asbury a great place to study and practice art!

• • Opportunities abound to include a minor in Business, Communication or Education, working to combine your passion for art with additional skills to stand out in the 21st century marketplace. These minors also enable you to pursue a +1 Graduate program at Asbury, earning degrees like an MBA or MA!

Yes, it does!

• • Asbury art students enjoy a high rate of acceptance into graduate programs of their choice, including Indiana University, Yale University School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art—London, School of Visual Arts (New York), and University of Kentucky.

• • The required Senior Seminar course addresses career and grad school planning and encourages an individualized plan.

• • In-house Student Resource Room archives up-to-date career and grad school planning materials.

• • All majors are given experiential training in approaches to gallery presentation methods and materials, in the form of a course that includes a group show of student work, organized entirely by students.

• • Internships are encouraged and in some cases required.

• • Opportunities abound to include a minor in Business, Communication or Education, working to combine your passion for art with additional skills to stand out in the 21st century marketplace. These minors also enable you to pursue a +1 Graduate program at Asbury, earning degrees like an MBA or MA!