KU Department of Visual Art

The Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas is committed to fostering an environment that encourages critical and aesthetic engagement through the teaching of conceptual and technical skills. Our professional, degree granting programs embrace the synergy between pedagogy and faculty creative research.	

Our mission is to provide exceptional and diverse faculty, facilities, equipment, and technologies that encompass both traditional and alternative media within a comprehensive curriculum. We encourage innovation and interdisciplinary activities to support our students’ development into professional artists and arts educators who are makers, critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and life-long learners.

We offer B.F.A., B.A., and M.F.A. degrees in Visual Art with areas of emphases in Ceramics, Drawing & Painting, Expanded Media, Metalsmithing/Jewelry, Printmaking, Sculpture and Textiles.
We also offer B.A.E. & M.A. in Visual Art Education and B.F.A. in History of Art.