The faculty are critically demanding and at the same time, supportive and nurturing to the individual student. This is an environment of excitement, stimulation and achievement. Three galleries exhibit student work throughout the year and display cases are constantly changed showing current work from all of the art disciplines. This is a place devoted to art-making and the spacious studios equipped with specialized equipment facilitate the process of bringing concept to reality. Perhaps the single outstanding characteristic of the department is the open and free communication among faculty, students and staff, coupled with a mutual respect and encouragement for all to excel.
Faculty teach and they also create art.
They represent a range of experience and aesthetic attitudes, and are actively pursuing creative goals. Their diverse background includes advanced work at a wide range of institutions including the Institute of Design, Chicago, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Syracuse University, Colorado University, Cranbrook and Temple University. Award winning, critically acclaimed and internationally recognized individuals all make up the core of this faculty. Their work can be found in collections of major museums from coast to coast including The Los Angeles Museum of Art on this coast and The Museum of Modern Art on the East coast. Individual painters and craftspersons have also exhibited in Japan, Australia, Germany, Italy and South America.