BA in Visual Arts

Mission

The mission of the Visual Arts Program is to prepare our students for rewarding careers in the visual arts through a dynamic visual arts curriculum and a comprehensive liberal arts education. The Visual Arts program provides individualized studio-arts training for the student who plans on becoming a practicing studio artist, curator, designer, photographer, art historian, or teacher. The program also prepares students to enter graduate programs in studio art, art history, museum studies, or art therapy.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate proficiency in major aspects, techniques, and directions in chosen medium or media.
• Analyze works of art perceptively and evaluate them critically by using a comprehensive knowledge of the history of art.
• Achieve the highest level of technical ability in chosen media and its expressive possibilities.
• Exhibit and promote evidence of the development of studio-art practices within the facilities of the art gallery and to have their artwork critiqued and discussed.

Program/Opportunities

• Art Gallery
• The Dillard Review (a journal of arts and letters)

Requirements for Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts

Complete a total of 122 credit hours of coursework for graduation.

Dillard University, Louisiana's oldest historically Black university, is a private four-year liberal art faith-based university. Located in New Orleans, we offer 22 bachelor's degrees in the disciplines of Business, Health, and Wellness, Humanities, Nursing, STEM, and Social Sciences. Our diverse student body is comprised of students from 33 states and 12 countries.

Dillard University attracts the leaders, thinkers, and artists of tomorrow, and equips them with the tools they need to imagine and build a better world for everyone. Our students do not acquire knowledge alone; they develop compassion and high ethical standards alongside it. They think critically, but they do not stop at thinking; they act to turn their dreams into reality. In doing the work they are called to do, they do not choose the easy path over the right path. Instead, their commitment to excellence and integrity makes their work resilient by inspiring others to join their cause. Our motto, “Ex Fide, Fortis," means "From Faith, Strength." It is this faith that keeps our vision clear, our hearts full, and our actions confident and deliberate, as together we transform the world into the world that it should be.