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.
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.
Arts in LA
Our students continually have opportunities to take advantage of the energy and vitality of the Los Angeles cultural environment.
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.
Stories
Israel Campos Explores Identity and History Through Art
LMU Assistant Professor of Printmaking uses art as a vehicle for understanding culture, community, and social change.
LMU Student Art Featured in Design Museum of Chicago Exhibit
The Design Museum of Chicago’s “Great Ideas of Humanity” exhibit features posters from LMU studio arts students
Dmitry Kemell Contributes to “Hospital of Emotions" Exhibit
Professor Dmitry Kemell is one of 70 artists who transformed St. Vincent Hospital into an immersive art exhibit
