Our mission is to challenge students to combine their creative and intellectual process while learning to communicate through images. Just as a writer thinks in words, a musician in sound and rhythm, and a mathematician in numbers, an artist thinks visually. At CBU, students will be challenged to use all aspects of their Lasallian education to become an imaginative problem solver who possesses the ability to create individual and socially relevant works of art.

Through small classroom numbers, we are able to provide individualized instruction at the highest academic level. Students studying art at CBU rapidly develop a sense of community with their peers as well as their professors through campus and community activities.

Students choose from several disciplines: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, or any combination of these in order to complete their major. The study of art history is a vital part of this major. It places art in a historical context along with religious, cultural, and social issues in order to understand how art contributes to our rapidly changing world.

In our Studio Art program, students are made aware of global issues in art through local exhibitions, internships, visits to campus by artists from around the world, and study abroad programs.

Learning Outcomes
• Produce and mount a comprehensive exhibition of work in their chosen discipline; including, a written thesis placing the work in a historical and contemporary context along with technical applications.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of art historical movements and the artists that led and participated in those movements.
• Possess the ability to verbalize and demonstrate an advanced level of understanding in a preferred medium.
• Develop ideas and exhibit the ability to manifest those ideas through self-motivation.
• Graduate with a completed body of work and knowledge that prepares students for graduate studies, a career as a professional artist, or a career in art related fields.