ART AND DESIGN

Trinity’s Department of Art and Design offers majors in art studio — fine art; art studio — graphic design; and art education; and minors in art studio, graphic design, and art history. Built on the creative and intellectual foundation of the fine arts, the art department offers concentrations of courses that can lead to graduate school in fine art or careers in the graphic arts. The program culminates with an internship and an exhibition in the College gallery. In recent years the Senior Show has been presented in a gallery in Chicago’s gallery district.

The gallery program is central to the art department. The College gallery exhibits work by a wide range of artists from internationally known to emerging artists. Students have opportunities to exhibit their own work on “The Wall,” the student gallery, and also in the College gallery. Student designers can work for the Student Design Organization doing design for campus events and occasionally for local businesses. In short, students begin to think and act like artists and designers long before their internships and graduation place them in the larger culture.