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Requirements
Major: The Bachelor of Arts degree in art requires 36 hours (with grades of C- or better) and normally includes *Art 125, 225, 325, 250, 251, 353, 203, 303, 312 and 2 credit hours of 450. A maximum of 40 hours of art courses will apply towards degree requirements. Transfer students must complete at least 12 hours in art courses at Jewell before graduating. Any major who is double majoring with art must also complete the requirements for the bachelor of arts degree. For art students seeking an emphasis in Graphic Design the following courses are recommended: BUS 201, 305, 260E, ENG 220, CST 265, COM 218.
Students seeking K-12 certification will also be required to take a course in fibers (149c, 2 hours) and two ceramics classes (103 and 249d, 6 hours). Art education majors are advised to have successfully completed the majority of their art hours before student teaching senior year.
The goal of this department is to give each student fundamental competence in the variety of media explored during the course of the major. We encourage the development of our students’ intuition, creativity and emotional maturity in tandem with their analytical and physical problem solving skills. Students will also have ample opportunities learning the business side of art.
They will learn all aspects of gallery preparation from mailings and news releases to taking the shows down. We have 4 major exhibitions each year, one student show, 1 or 2 senior exhibitions and a faculty exhibition every other year in our premier space, the Ruth E. Stocksdale Gallery of Art. They will participate in annual end of semester sales (“Dire, Fire and Wire”), as well as other off site venues.
Graduates of this art department have gone on to careers in graphic design and web media, illustration, historic preservation, art history, cartooning, video and film making, pottery, theater design, sculpture, fine arts painting, framing, gallery work, and K-12 teaching. We are located only 15 minutes from downtown Kansas City and have ready access to the mid-town and west-bottoms galleries, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Students will be required to submit 2 works of art to the Art Department, both to be mutually agreed upon by the student and the art department. One is a print from Art 312, and the other is a piece from Art 450b, the senior exhibition.
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