Studio Art Major

Students work with professional, internationally recognized artists and teachers in the areas of painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, new genres, and electronic arts. The Art Department also offers the Correnah W. Wright Lecture Series on Contemporary Art, which features prominent artists and writers (speakers to date have included Dave Hickey, Fred Wilson, Catherine Opie, May Stevens, Komar and Melamid, Dinh Q. Le, and Shahzia Sikander), and the Jane Green Endowment for Studies in Art History and Criticism (speakers to date have included Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Vishakha Desai, Elizabeth Cropper, Alberto Manguel, Apinan Poshyananda, Whitney Chadwick, Deborah Willis, Wu Hung, Catherine de Zegher, and Greil Marcus). Art students can enrich their academic experience through participation in Mills-affiliated study abroad programs in Europe and Asia, and through exchange programs with colleges on the East Coast. On campus, the Mills College Art Museum provides students with experience in all phases of museum work, including curatorial duties, installation, and cataloging. To support students' research interests, the Visual Resources library offers digital access to Mills' collection of images illustrating arts and cultures worldwide.

Mills also offers a master of fine arts degree in studio art, described in the Graduate Catalog.

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