If you believe you are a creative, traditional studio artist, Lakeland University will help you flourish. Our Studio Art major is designed to meet your specific needs and make you stand out to potential employers in your chosen profession.

The Art department's mission is to train artists, art historians, and visual arts administrators, as well as to provide service courses for non-art majors. Through our courses, we aspire to build an appreciation for the rich interchange of images and ideas that can happen between art and other academic disciplines.

Arts organizations make communities come alive – from symphonies to jazz bands, theaters to sculpture gardens, museums to community arts centers, public radio to festivals. All of that activity is made possible by arts managers.

Through the arts management major, students will understand the issues, problems and policy interventions impacting the contemporary arts and cultural industries; develop business and managerial skills for professional decision making in arts and cultural organizations; and practice creative and critical thinking, opportunity recognition and innovation in various arts and cultural environments.

The department views the experience and practise of the visual arts, particularly at the undergraduate level, as an interdisciplinary pursuit.

The Department of Art delivers comprehensive art training within a liberal arts tradition, preparing students for success in today's competitive art environment.

In an ever-increasingly visual world, art and art history cultivate essential critical looking skills that allow students to better navigate and respond to their communities, both local and global.

The only degree of its kind currently being offered in Raleigh, our BA in Arts Administration is led by faculty with vast professional and academic experience. As an Arts Administration major at WPU, you will develop the skills necessary to make a mark on the professional world. The Bachelor of Arts degree program features focused studies in marketing, accounting, management, administration, advertising, media, public relations and the arts. Through elective courses, you’ll be able to focus further on specific arts areas that interest you (theater, music or visual art). You will train under an impressive network of faculty and guests whose resumes include professional artistic credits, administrative and business positions as well as strong academic achievements. You will also benefit from “outside the classroom” experiences such as required internships, student-run organizations and study abroad opportunities (such as the university’s recent trips to England and Italy).

Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Art may choose a concentration in Studio Art, Art History, or Art Education. The Art Education concentration fulfills the Waiver Requirements of the California Commission for Teacher Credentialing (CTCC) for the Single Subject Program in Art. The department also offers a minor in Art, Studio Art, or Art History.

The Bachelor of Arts in Art offers students the opportunity to study art and liberal arts. The degree consists of a minimum of 36 credit hours in art and art history.

The art business program develops your technique in the studio and business skillset for curating, marketing, and selling art. As an art business major, you’ll build a capacity for the critical evaluation of global artworks. The program also builds your entrepreneurial skills with coursework in accounting, small business management, and internet marketing. Graduates may work as art managers and promoters, museum and gallery associates, and marketing professionals.

Develop your artistic talents and hone your business acumen to excel in a career in management in the arts. Developed to meet the growing demand for professionals in the field who possess strong business and communication skills coupled with artistic sensibilities, our Bachelor of Arts in Arts Administration program prepares you for a future in management in the arts.

The program gives you a strong preparation in the field of Economics and Business along with a distinctive focus on the humanities, enhancing your critical assessment skills. The variety of subjects covered is what sets it apart from the other Bocconi BSc programs.