We encourage an attitude of curiosity. Our program is committed to providing our students with an understanding of the broad cultural and historical context in which art is made and experienced. Our department has a weekly schedule of visiting lecturers, who expose our students to a broad range of artistic expression. In any year, our lectures include practicing studio artists at varying stages in their careers, museum curators and critics, all of national standing. The lecturers do studio visits with the students.
Special effort is made to put the visiting artist in contact with our graduate students.
Also during the year, the students visit the studios of working artists in both Philadelphia and New York. Graduate students have two years to develop their work and critical skills. Each student is given a private studio and also had 24 hour access to our large and extensively equipped facility. The school offers galleries for exhibiting work on campus, as well as five acres of grounds for outdoor work. Our program attracts talented and committed young artists from across the country and a pivotal part of the study is the interaction of this community of dedicated artists.