Art & Art History Studio Areas
Studio Art develops the student's creative potential in a wide range of visual media from printmaking to photography to digital imaging. The Department has developed a dynamic and innovative interdisciplinary learning environment which combines instruction in a range of professional studio labs with a structured combination of art history lectures and intensive seminars in which critical thinking and critical practice can occur.
The Department’s Studio programs offer students the opportunity to be technically proficient in the visual mediums of photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and digital imaging as well as mixed media work such as installation and performance.
Within this studio setting, faculty in Art History introduce students to a wide range of historical, theoretical and philosophical approaches to art. The Art History program offers a broad array of classes from Renaissance and Baroque Studies to Postcolonial Studies in Contemporary Art to First People’s Art History to Studies in Photographic History.
Facilities
The central facility of the Department of Art and Art History occupies three levels of the east wing of the Murray Building (Main Library) on the U of S campus. This location is home to the General office, Head's office, Faculty offices, the Visual Resource Centre and Gordon Snelgrove Gallery in addition to the Photography, Drawing and Painting, and Printmaking areas. Department facilities outside the Murray Building include the Sculpture studio in the Toxicology Research Centre and the Graduate Student studios located in the Archeology Building. As well, the Department accesses an Arts and Science computer lab in the Thorvaldson Building for the Digital Imaging course.