We offer introductory to advanced courses in art history and studio practice that enable our students to develop artistic awareness, historical understanding, critical faculties and practice in the visual arts.
The art and the history of art major is organized into two distinct programs: The History of Art and The Practice of Art.
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Our gallery displays a variety of student and visiting artist exhibitions throughout the academic year.
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Our students share large, light-filled studio spaces for painting, printmaking, sculpting, photography, video and design.
Together, Amherst’s dynamic arts programs foster a lively environment for the multidisciplinary study, creation and presentation of the arts.
Learn MoreAn introduction to two- and three-dimensional studio disciplines through hands-on engagement with materials supplemented by lectures, demonstrations and readings.
In this studio art course, we will review a broad range of art forms including artworks from the environmental art and land art movements, as well as ones addressing social and political issues around ecology and the climate crisis.
This studio course is designed as an interactive laboratory for students interested in imaginative experimentation to discover and access multiple ways to generate material in different media (dance, theater, visual /digital art, text and/or sound).
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