Studio Arts

LMU Studio Arts offers our students a transformative educational experience with a broad conceptual and formal approach to the fundamentals of fine art and design. Our students achieve visual and cultural literacy through individual artistic, creative, and theoretical exploration, all within the context of a liberal arts education. Offering a specialized BFA degree with concentrations in 3D studies, art education, drawing, multimedia arts, painting, photography and visual communication design, as well as a general BA art degree and a popular minor.

Gallery visitors looking at artwork at a Fine Arts Senior Exhibition.

Student Work

Ample exhibition opportunities exist for our students, in the student art gallery throughout the year and in final senior thesis and juried exhibitions at the end of each year.

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Arts in LA

Our students continually have opportunities to take advantage of the energy and vitality of the Los Angeles cultural environment.

Flags made by students on display in the Burns Courtyard.

Our DEIA

LMU Studio Arts acknowledges and is committed to dismantling oppressive systems and inequities. We engage in the process of reimagining what and how we teach and create, by ensuring that diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism permeate the curriculum.

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In the News

Photo of BLM protestors taken by Trevor Jackson.
“I started taking photos because I felt like I was in a place where my perspective didn’t matter. Through photos, I was allowed to highlight my perspective."
"Louise Royer ‘22, an alumna of LMU Studio Arts, was part of a team that took home the top prize at the 2024 MIT Reality Hack Competition"
"LMU Studio Arts has developed a unique opportunity for students seeking specialized art degrees, introducing a new BFA degree program in Fall 2022"

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