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Art & Design Department

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Create Your Future in the Arts

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Today's technologies have created a whole new environment and demand for creativity and innovation. In our program, we stress the conceptualization of new ideas, which are needed when interpreting the world in this new global era. Technology has helped increase both the avenues for artistic expression and the audience for it. Every expression medium, from phones to tablets to laptops, requires visuals created by artists.

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Majors and Minors in Art & Design

With any area of study you choose, you will see how art is integral to the economy of the future. The Department of Art & Design at UW-Eau Claire can help you to enter that economy, while fostering your skills on the path to meet your career and artistic goals. These programs will increase your ability to synthesize and make necessary connections between your artistic voice and an ever-changing, global workforce.

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The Ruth Foster Art Gallery

The Foster Gallery is the largest gallery in the Eau Claire area, and admission is free to Blugolds and the public. With a strong educational program, UW-Eau Claire students can experience this learning space through exhibition receptions, open viewings, installation opportunities, guest speaker presentations, and the chance to participate in our annual juried student art show.

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The Department of Art & Design supports a contemporary and comprehensive visual arts program. We endorse:

  • Introduction to visual learning through foundation courses.
  • Experience with two, three, and four dimensional art.
  • Exploration of a variety of media.
  • Expanded knowledge and skill in individual areas of interest.
  • Awareness of the theories and world history of art.
  • Participation in national and international contemporary art.
  • Employment of imagination and innovation as global citizens.

Our diverse and inclusive curriculum promotes a body of knowledge that serves individual needs and challenges the minds of our students. We embrace our responsibility as an integral component of a public liberal arts institution and of our local and regional communities. Our program advances the university's mission and its liberal education learning goals. 

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Haas Fine Arts Center 104
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
United States

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