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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 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.
Discovering the potential of wood has been a lifelong interest for Matt Thomas '12. Now, his company, Elko Hardwoods, sells custom tables online and at a retail location in the south side of Chicago.
For a year, Justin and Brooke Rothshank worked alongside each other as spouses, as artists, exploring gratitude.
Seven current and retired art faculty exhibited works at the 40th Elkhart Juried Regional Exhibition at the Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart.
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Art concentrations to choose from
of art alumni are employed within one year of graduation
of art alumni agreed that art professors are genuinely interested in their students
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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.
Peni's storyBen Friesen ’05, of Oakland, California, uses his theater background to teach Origami.
Ben's storyDona Park is a Junior art and interdisciplinary double major from Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Dona's storyPenina (Acayo) Laker ’11, a former Maple Leaf volleyball and track & field All-American from Kampala, Uganda, uses visual design to take a human-centered approach to solving social problems.
Penina's storyArdys Woodward, a 2017 art and social work graduate 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.
Ardy's storyGoshen 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.
Mark's storyVeronica Berkey
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