University that offers both liberal arts and a strong art program???

Midwestmomofboys
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:12:11 +0000

Dickinson and Denison both have gorgeous facilities – Dickinson’s is in a renovated shoe factory, Denison’s is in the converted “women’s gym” from around 1900, both are gorgeous renovations/reuse. Dickinson also has “loft-like” student housing in the adjoining part of the arts building which had my kid imagining rolling out of bed to saunter over to the arts building and work away to his heart’s content. Denison offers a BFA as well as BA, for those so inclined.

Spend time on the faculty/course offerings for schools of interest to see if they offer depth in the media of interest. Painting and sculpture should be well covered everywhere but we were surprised to find that a number of schools did not offer ceramics as part of the fine arts curriculum, including Vassar, Oberlin, and Kenyon. Ceramics was available as a “community enrichment/coop” program, generally with fewer resources than our high school program.

Our routine for visiting LACs was to set up coach meeting (he was looking to play in college) and also meeting with music and art departments, at least to get a quick tour of facilities. Was quite enlightening to see the resources and even how warm and open (or not) various programs were.