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Academics  —  Art Major & Minor

Art Major & Minor

By its nature, the visual arts attract creative people who strive to carve out their own niche. That’s why the Goshen College art major offers you a variety of concentrations to choose from, including graphic design, art entrepreneurship, studio art, visual arts education (K-12), pre-architecture and art administration.

In addition to comprehensive classes, you will a find number of extra-curricular opportunities to spark your creativity, like the three-week Arts in London class. You’ll create and display your work, study the artistic achievements of cultures old and new, sell your work at student art sales, or apply your skills to set designs or costumes for a theater production. You can also enroll in the distinctive art entrepreneurship program that combines developing your artistic skills and learning how to open a small business.

Today, GC art major graduates pursue careers as graphic designers, teachers, architects, ceramists, professors, jewelers and business owners across the globe. But before you can find your creative niche in the art industry, the years you spend studying at Goshen College art program in Indiana will take you behind the potter’s wheel, behind the welding mask, teaching in a classroom and mounting your own senior art exhibit. Upon graduation, you’ll have the creative and practical skills to seek an imaginative, rewarding career.

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Graphic Design Entrepreneurship Multimedia Communication Communication Secondary Education Elementary Education Theater

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News & Events

Leslee Smucker '09 delights eyes and ears with multimedia music project

August 18, 2016

Leslee Smucker graduated from Goshen College in 2009 with a music major and an art minor, and took the interdisciplinary spirit of a liberal arts education into a new project called “Personae” that explores the musical and literary style of the poet Ezra Pound.

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Sam Weaver '15 : Recycling sculpture drives home a message - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

August 15, 2016

Sam Weaver '15 has worked this summer for Allegheny CleanWays on the Recycle Right project.

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Ben Friesen '05 unfolds a career with origami

August 11, 2016

There are very few people in the world who are paid to fold origami, but Goshen College alumnus Ben Friesen ’05, of Oakland, California, is one of them.

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Library Gallery exhibit to feature Amish landscape paintings

August 3, 2016

An exhibit featuring Doug Unger’s paintings of Amish farmscapes in Holmes County, Ohio, will open in Goshen College’s Library Gallery on September 11.

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Comics issue of Mennonite writing journal to feature GC students, alums

July 25, 2016

Several Goshen College students and alums have their work published in a special comics and graphic novels issue of the Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing. Jessica Baldanzi, associate professor of English and comics

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Stats

100%

of art alumni agreed that art professors are genuinely interested in their students

 

93%

of art alumni are employed within one year of graduation

7

Art concentrations to choose from

Students & Alumni

Ardys Woodward '17

Art and Social Work Double Major

Ardys Woodward, a sophomore art and social work major from Kansas, came to Goshen for its strong academics, but quickly felt at home in a place where critical thinking is common even outside the classroom. Read more

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Mark Histand '08 and Alex Caskey '10

Environmental Science and Art Majors

Goshen graduates Mark Histand '08 and Alex Caskey '10 oversaw the construction a peanut butter factory in Malawi with Project Peanut Butter, which aims to treat children with malnutrition and help the local economy. Read more

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Ben Friesen '05

Theater major

Ben Friesen ’05, of Oakland, California, uses his theater background to teach Origami. Read more

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Natalie Hubby '16

History major and art minor

A history major and art minor, Natalie Hubby '16 kept busy on campus since arriving at Goshen College in 2012. Read more

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Tasha Friesen '15

Spanish and Art Double Major

Tasha Friesen is a Spanish and art student from Goshen. She participated in choir and art club and designed layout for the campus newspaper, The Record, for four semesters. Read more

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Kate Yoder '15

English Writing and Art Double Major

Kate Yoder studied English writing and art and enjoyed spending her time in the community garden close to campus, playing piano, editing for college publications and creating mixed media collages. Read more

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Dona Park '17

Art and Interdisciplinary Double Major

Dona Park is a Junior art and interdisciplinary double major from Abbotsford, British Columbia.  Read more

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Peni Acayo '11

Art Major

Peni Acayo '11 came to Goshen to be an artist, but she was also a star athlete, a scholar, a volunteer and a peacemaker. Far away from her home in Kampala, Uganda, Peni took advantage of many extra-curricular opportunities. Read more

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Randy Horst

Professor of Art

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Merrill Krabill

Professor of Art

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  • Visual Arts Building 11 (Map)
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John Mishler

Associate Professor of Art

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Kristi Glick

Associate Professor of Art
Art Gallery Co-Director

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  • (330) 473-9177 (Call | Text)
  • Visual Arts Building 11 (Map)
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Leslie Miller

Assistant Professor of Art

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  • (574) 674-8801 (Call | Text)
  • Visual Arts Building 13A (Map)

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