Art & Design

Enjoy the exploration of many types of art in WOU’s Art & Design program. Not only will you master key principles and skills in art and visual communications design, but you’ll also learn creative problem-solving processes along the way. The program combines art theory and studio practice as well as art history, graphic design, interactive media and much more! Get practical skills that are in demand in a wide range of industries and settings.

I’m also a minor!

credits required for the Art & Design major

students enrolled in the Art & Design program

students per class on average in the Art & Design program

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of master's degree can be completed as an undergrad at WOU

Sample four-year degree plan

Learning outcomes

  • Cultivate lifelong strategies for creative thinking, skill-building, and active practice of art and design.
  • Engage in the world through critical inquiry and design process and analyze art and design in context.
  • Integrate vision, language, form, and materials for communication and self-expression.

Career opportunities

  • Graphic designer
  • Art teacher
  • Sculptor
  • Painter
  • Ceramist
  • Printmaker
  • Photographer
  • Illustrator/animator

Art & Design minor

You’ll work with your adviser to choose your ideal combination of upper- and lower-division classes for this minor. You might explore drawing, design, art history, exhibition design or non-Western art — this minor is what you make it!

credits required for the Art & Design minor

Faculty

DONNA BEVERLY

NTT Instructor, Art
beverlyd@wou.edu

PAULA BOOTH

NTT Assistant Professor, Art
503-838-8607 | boothp@wou.edu | CH 309

JENNIFER BRACY

Professor, Art
503-838-8534 | bracyj@wou.edu | ITC 206D

MICHAEL FREEMAN

Professor of Art History, Art
503-838-8326 | freemanm@wou.edu | CH 109

ERIC FREY

Art Department Production Specialist,
freye@wou.edu

JODIE GARRISON

Professor, Art
503-838-8027 | garrisonj@wou.edu | CH 310

MARY HARDEN

Associate Professor, Art
503-838-8460 | hardenm@wou.edu | CH 110

PETE HOFFECKER MEJIA

Assistant Professor, Art
hoffeckermejiap@wou.edu | CH 204

REBECCA MCCANNELL

Professor, Art
503-838-8442 | mccannr@wou.edu | CH 312

SUNG EUN PARK

NTT Assistant Professor, Art
503-838-8149 | parks@wou.edu | CH 005

GREGORY POULIN

NTT Assistant Professor, Art
503-838-8241 | pouling@wou.edu | CH 203

DANIEL TANKERSLEY

Art Department Head, Art
503-838-9658 | tankersley@wou.edu | ITC 206B

JENNIFER VAUGHN

NTT Assistant Professor, Art
503-838-9618 | vaughnj@wou.edu | ITC 206C

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Contact Us

Phone: 503-838-8340

Email: killipl@wou.edu

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