Programs

Visual Arts

“Making art is an opportunity to synthesize your curiosity with your lived experience.”

— Jeff Whetstone

The Program in Visual Arts introduces students to the studio arts in the context of a liberal arts education. Offering courses in painting, drawing, graphic design, photography/digital photography, film/video, and sculpture, the program provides enrolled students extensive contact with an accomplished faculty as well as access to technical, analog, and digital labs including darkrooms, ceramics facilities, welding and mold-making areas, a letterpress studio, film editing bays, and a renovated theater for 35 mm and 16 mm film projections. The Visual Arts program occupies the entire historical building located at 185 Nassau Street.

Students who are interested in concentrating in Visual Arts can earn their bachelor’s degree in The Practice of Art (PA) with a focus on Visual Art through the Department of Art & Archaeology or through the Visual Arts Minor done in conjunction with another major. Members of either cohort can follow our dedicated film track. Both Practice of Art majors and Visual Arts minors enjoy 24/7 access to shared studio loft spaces as juniors and spacious, semi-private studios as seniors. Throughout the year, student work is exhibited in the Lucas Gallery, the Hurley Gallery, the newly renovated Hagan Gallery, and the James Stewart Film Theater.

Employing an interdisciplinary and multi-media approach, the Program in Visual Arts encourages general students to enrich their education with art-making experience (and the attendant questions and meta-perspectives that offers), and for concentrators to weave different art-making modalities and media into their overall practice.

Learn more about Program in Visual Arts faculty, news, events, & courses.

 


Visual Arts News

 


Upcoming Visual Arts Events

Browse the events calendar to see all upcoming events from the Program in Visual Arts or arts partners across campus.

 


Current Visual Arts Exhibitions

 


Featured Videos

 


Senior Work

Browse a student film showcase of senior films produced since 2003

 


VIS Book 2023

View the full-screen size Princeton Visual Arts 2023 book. Design by Yoko Urano ’23.

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Questions?

For more information about the Program in Visual Arts, please contact the Program Associate Kristy Seymour at 609-258-2788 or kseymour@princeton.edu, or consult a directory of program staff.

Climate & Inclusion

Learn more about the Lewis Center for the Arts' efforts on addressing Climate & Inclusion.