Careers
Many art graduates secure employment as commissioned fine artists, creative directors, animators, architects, graphic designers, professors, historians and museum curators.
Hands-On Learning
Internship opportunities include:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Architect at Koch Hazard
- Curator or archivist at the Center for Western Studies (CWS)
- Graphic design at Fresh Produce
- Art therapist at Sanford or Avera Health
Art students study away in:
- India — focusing on religion, art, and sound with AU faculty
- France — focusing on anthropology and rock art with AU faculty
- London, England, or New York City, New York — focusing on art history with AU faculty
- Worldwide through the Upper Midwest Association for Intercultural Education (UMAIE)
Augustana is a founding member of the Higher Education Consortium on Urban Affairs (HECUA), through which the university participates in rigorous off-campus learning through Art for Social Change.
Courses & Organizations
The program stresses foundations in drawing and design as a basis for all art-making processes, with strong components in community learning and peer critiques.
Undergraduate art majors can choose between a Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor of Arts with multiple tracks:
- Art education — prepare to teach at elementary and secondary levels
- Art history — practice evaluating and reflecting on the ways of seeing and representing the world, dictated by culture and time period
- Ceramics — shape, glaze and fire clay free-form and wheel-thrown forms
- Drawing — establish conceptual framework and foundation for all other studio areas
- Graphic design — design digitally with the latest Adobe software in the Mac lab
- Painting — develop original expression in painting techniques
- Photography — learn conceptual, aesthetic and visual tools of digital photography
- Printmaking — master intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, woodcut and wood engraving
- Sculpture — sculpt using modeling and mold-making in plaster and clay, carving, construction, assemblage, stone carving, bronze casting, welded metals, plastics and contemporary movements
