Bachelor of Arts in Art Business

The art business program develops your technique in the studio and business skillset for curating, marketing, and selling art. As an art business major, you’ll build a capacity for the critical evaluation of global artworks. The program also builds your entrepreneurial skills with coursework in accounting, small business management, and internet marketing. Graduates may work as art managers and promoters, museum and gallery associates, and marketing professionals.

The heart of all art studies at Bluefield College is the Donald and Maria Cox Visual Arts Building, a historic brick building. Renovated to inspire creativity from every angle, the light-washed art studios and classrooms offer spaces designed to build a rich and personal body of work. When you’re ready to shadow administration or management professionals in the workplace, the art and business faculty can help you structure an internship. The culmination of this degree is a business capstone course, requiring you to craft a hands-on business project often combined with your internship.

Bluefield College is a Christ-centered learning community developing servant leaders to transform the world.

Christians identify Jesus Christ as the model servant leader. Christ shared that he came not to be served but to serve. In addition to living a life exhibited by the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, a servant leader is humble and allows his/her words and deeds to speak for themselves. Ultimately, a servant leader desires to live a life of significance and to make a difference in the lives of others.

Servant leadership is being a servant first, letting the natural feeling to serve others come first, and then through conscious choice bringing one to aspire to lead. This manifests itself in that the servant leader makes sure that other people’s highest needs are being served.