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Recognized as one of the most artistic colleges in the country (Newsweek).
— Adrienne Brendlinger ’07, 2018 Delaware Art Teacher of the Year.
Located in the Center for the Arts complex, the Art Department at Albright offers courses ranging from Studio Art, Art History, Art Education and Digital media for all creative pathways.
Mediums include: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Media and Emerging Technologies.
Aside from degrees in Studio Art and Digital Studio Art, The Art Department offers minors in Art History, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Film and Video and Arts Administration + a certificate in Art Education.
The Art major, combined Art major, and special program minors within the Art Department provide you the opportunity to combine general liberal studies with in-depth study in studio art and art history. By expanding your knowledge of art genres, visual concepts, media and artists, the Art Department heightens your awareness of and appreciation for the visual arts. We emphasize critical thinking, effective self-expression and creative problem solving. Through our curriculum, the Art Department fosters your understanding of the global role of visual arts in human society.
Understanding the elements and principles of design.
After graduating from Albright with a bachelor’s in Art, Steve Cossman went on to found and direct Mono No Aware; a nonprofit cinema arts organization whose annual event exhibits the work of contemporary artists who incorporate live film projections and altered light as part of a performance, sculpture or installation. In 2010 the organization established a series of analog filmmaking workshops in conjunction with the event that currently works with 200 participants a year. Steve’s first major work on film, TUSSLEMUSCLE, earned him Kodak’s Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award and has screened at many festivals and institutions internationally. In 2013, he completed residencies at MoMA PS1’s Expo 1 and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. He has been a visiting artist at Dartmouth, the New York Academy of Art, Yale and the Aurora Picture Show in Houston. Steve’s newest work on film, WHITE CABBAGE (2011-2013), a collaboration with Jahiliyya Fields of L.I.E.S., had its U.S. premiere with a series of new work at Anthology Film Archives in December 2013. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a director, curator, visual artist and member of the collective DecayNY, creating time-based works on film, video, and paper.
In the year following her graduation from Albright with a major in Art Education, Adrienne Lastoskie was a substitute teacher at Daniel Boone High School, where she had also attended high school. She was then offered a full-time position teaching art in Maryland for the Brandywine School District.
She attributes the experiences she had as an Art Education student at Albright as the primary reason she was offered a teaching position in a location of her choice. Adrienne says the team-teaching experiences at public elementary and secondary schools as well as at the Reading Public Museum prior to student teaching gave her a unique background and competitive advantage over art education graduates from other institutions.
Adrienne also feels the challenging studio art courses at the College enabled her to develop her artistic skills and create a strong teaching portfolio. She now takes her Albright studio assignments and converts them to projects she can assign her public school students.
Angela Morin excelled as a student teacher during her placement at Boyertown High School. When her cooperating teacher had to take an extended leave of absence, Angela was offered a contract as a long-term substitute teacher because of how effective she was a student teacher. Cooperating teachers in local elementary and high schools have expressed preference in having Albright College art education students because of how well prepared they are as student teachers.
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Note that a portfolio review is not required for admission into the Art Department, but can be submitted for consideration of merit scholarship when you apply.
Please see Arts Administration for information on the Combined Major and Minor in Arts Administration.
One of these courses may also be used to satisfy the Foundations-Fine Arts requirement of the General Education Curriculum.
Art Majors preparing for a career in education take Art courses and a series of Education and other courses specified by the Education Department to meet Pennsylvania Department of Education regulations. As early as possible in their college experience, candidates for teacher certification in Art should consult the Requirements section of the Education website and the chair of Education regarding specific course requirements. The Art Education certification is a grades K-12 program.
Students will draw from a variety of sources including the live model and biological specimens as fundamental experiences for developing hand-eye coordination. Various media and techniques are explored.
Students will continue their study of the principles of painting and design, and are encouraged to develop their own personal idiom while working in oil, acrylic and mixed media. Prerequisite: ART 112 or permission of department.
A continued exploration of sculptural practices ranging from further personal development of concept and process. Methods include: mold making, metal casting, carving and welding. Prerequisite: ART 113 or permission of department.
This is an introduction to still photography; basic experience in the use of the camera, developing, printing and enlarging. The emphasis is on composition, light and shadow, textures, and experimental photography as a means of visual expression. Studio fee.
This is an advanced-level study of methods and materials, as well as aesthetic and conceptual issues, as they apply to painting. Prerequisite: ART 212 or permission of department.
A further study of various three-dimensional medias incorporating emerging technologies and practices in sculpture. Prerequisite: ART 213 or permission of department.
In this course, students concentrate in a particular branch of photography, including work in toning, solarization, kodalith, color and digital photography. Studio fee. Prerequisite: ART 216 or permission of department.
This is an individual study program, arranged in consultation with the instructor. Students will develop a cohesive body of work based upon an intensive exploration of thematic context, materials and techniques. This course emphasizes individual concept development, personal direction, originality and problem solving.
This is an individual study program, arranged in consultation with the instructor, for continued development of a personal approach to painting and creative decision-making. Prerequisite: ART 312 or permission of department.
This is an individual study program, arranged in consultation with the instructor, for continued development of a personal approach to sculpture and creative decision-making. Prerequisite: ART 313 or permission of department.
A survey of ancient to contemporary western art. This course includes sections on Western Art, Chinese Art, Japanese and Korean Art, and African Art. The course is designed for future teachers of art as well as students interested in an overview of art history. General Studies Foundations-Fine Arts. This course will not be offered after the 2019 Spring Semester.
A survey of painting and sculpture from the mid-19th century to the present. Avant-garde developments in Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Postmodernism are emphasized. A field trip is required. General Studies Foundations-Fine Arts This course will not be offered after the 2018 Fall Semester.
In this course, students will study a topic or area of interest in art history. The course may focus on an area such as museum management or be a specialized course on, for example, Impressionism or Dutch Baroque art. The course offers the student the close intellectual scrutiny that accompanies scholarly readings not always tenable in a survey course.
Developments in painting, sculpture and related forms from abstract expressionism through postmodernism of the 1980s are examined in detail. Considerable attention is given to issues of mass culture. A field trip is required.
This course explores the early history of photography from its beginnings in the early decades of the 19th century until the present. Considerable attention is given to the question of how photography has impacted the aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual values of modern civilization, a question that has preoccupied thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Susan Sontag.
This course engages art education candidates in developing an understanding of the philosophy and principles of art education in the elementary school curriculum. Each student will work with a variety of public school art materials as a basis for teaching, understanding and evaluating children’s artwork. This course is a pre-student teaching experience in which each student prepares lessons for N-7 instruction. Activities include field trips, observations and classroom presentations.
This course engages art education candidates in the investigation of the concepts and values of art theory and practice as related to the secondary curriculum. Students study classroom problems and procedure in various teaching situations. Emphasis is placed upon application, observation and evaluation of teaching as related to the adolescent in the secondary school. This course is a pre-student teaching experience in which each student prepares lessons for secondary art instruction. Activities include field trips, observations and classroom presentations.
This course provides an introduction to how arts organizations, including those in the theater, dance, music and the visual arts, engage artists and audiences and how they are governed. Leadership of individual organizations as well as the larger public policy and community issues surrounding the arts are examined. The course also includes overviews of historical contexts, economic conditions, organizational cultures and financial systems relative to the arts.
This course will introduce students to all aspects of exhibition and gallery management. Using the Freedman Gallery as a resource, students will gain hands on experience focusing on the organization of an exhibition from start to finish. Particular attention will be paid to the concept of production schedules, writing didactic materials, and installation. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of educational related programming and collections management. Students will gain practical experience working with the permanent collection, developing skills related to database management, storage and loans. Readings for the course will include critical texts surrounding the discourse of exhibition and curatorial strategies. Assignments throughout the semester will focus on sharpening critical writing and thinking skills by analyzing a selection of articles and exhibition reviews. The final project will include an exhibition culled from the Gallery’s permanent collection to be presented as part of the Gallery’s regular schedule. Through research, writing and analysis of exhibition case studies, students will learn about the broader context of how exhibitions play a role in the dialogue of the contemporary art world. Prerequisites: At least one art history course and ARA 220, or the permission of the instructor.
In 1990, with a lead gift by philanthropist Doris Chanin Freedman and a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Albright launched a $6.5 million building project under the direction of architect Adele Santos, who collaborated with sculptor Mary Miss to create the central plaza and amphitheater that form the heart of our Center for the Arts (CFA).
Around this central artwork, Santos designed a south wing to house the Art Department, with studios for drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and woodworking. The north wing houses the Freedman Gallery, with a small outdoor sculpture court separating it from the northeast wing, which is home to the Music Department and its studios, practice rooms and Roop Hall performance space. The costume and fashion sewing lab connects this floor via a breezeway to the Campus Center. On the second floor of this wing sit the Wachovia Theatre, box office and mezzanine, where special events and receptions are held. Klein Hall, which serves as a space for class lectures and is home to the International Film Series, directly connects the CFA to the Campus Center on this level.
CFA’s studio classrooms provide more than ample space for you to explore the media of your choice. These spaces were designed with exposure to northern light in order to provide maximum natural light every day.
You are encouraged to make use of the facilities outside of class time and have access to them at all times of day. Art Department facilities support activities in drawing, two- and three-dimensional design, painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, analog and digital photography, printmaking and digital media.
Students in the Albright Visual Arts Organization (AVAO) organized workshops with art faculty to construct bones from clay and plaster to be exhibited as part of One Million Bones, a national project calling attention to genocide throughout the world. AVAO’s fabricated bones were displayed at Penn State Berks’s Freyberger Gallery and the Goggleworks Center for the Arts in Reading before making their way to the National Mall in Washington, DC.

References: ART 112
 ART 113
 ART 212
 ART 213
 ART 216
 ART 312
 ART 313