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|| Portfolio Requirements Studio Art (Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Ceramics)
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Portfolio Requirements We prefer slides of your work. We would like to see 15 to 20 examples of your best work that demonstrates the range of your skills. Attach a brief description of each image which includes the following information: 1) title of work; 2) medium; 3) date completed; 4) size; and 5) a one-page letter that outlines your artistic goals. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for their return. If you plan to present your works in person, we would be happy to meet with you. If you have already been accepted to Valparaiso University and are considering a major in Art, call the department chair at 219-465-7804 to set up an interview. If you have not been accepted but would still like to meet with someone from our department, please call the Admissions office. Our faculty of eleven hold Master's and/or Ph.D. degrees from the following institutions: California Institute of the Arts, University of Minnesota, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, and the University of Kentucky. They teach courses in graphic design (Macintosh-based), product design, desktop publishing, photography (black/white, color), painting (watercolor, oil), sculpture, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, art education, museum studies, and art history. They are professionally active in their respective areas as artists and art historians, exhibiting and publishing on a national level. Upon graduation, our students in the last five years have either attended or been accepted to graduate programs at the following institutions: School of the Art Institute of Chicago; University of Chicago; California Institute of the Arts; Indiana University; University of Maryland; Stanford University; Bard College; Iowa State University; University of Michigan; Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Pratt Institute of Art. In the fall of 1995, the new $19.2 million Center for the Arts opened on campus. This facility includes a new Graphic Design Lab, Photography Lab, Art History facilities, and the capacity for working in interactive media to bring graphic design, photography, video and music production together in a single electronic environment. Also housed in the Center for the Arts are the Brauer Museum and the departments of Music and Theatre and Television Arts. The Brauer Museum of Art on campus possesses a strong collection of American
art. The complete collection is valued at over six million dollars. Each
year the museum exhibits works from its permanent collection as well as
student shows and traveling exhibitions of works by artists of national
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