Program Highlights
Scholarships
As an art major, you’re eligible for several scholarships available only to art majors. These are based on merit, involvement, and financial need.
Dedicated Faculty
Whether you want to study studio art, art history, or create your own path, Luther’s art faculty will guide you through our program, helping you explore and discover the kind of art that matters to you.
Private Studio Spaces
As a senior art major, you’re guaranteed a private studio space to help you grow as an artist and prepare your senior project.
What You’ll Learn
Art Major
As an art major, you’re encouraged to follow your calling. The program has fully outfitted studio areas in ceramics, graphic design, painting, printmaking, and digital photography.
Luther’s introductory courses engage you in the meaning and understanding of visual discourse through the structure of our studio core. You’ll use this knowledge to develop and make artworks. The advanced courses will help you connect ideas and experiences in preparation for your senior project exhibition work.
You might also decide to pair your major with a related minor and/or double major with a focus on your specific career goals. Art majors commonly pair with: visual communication, biology, theatre, creative writing, identity studies, management, museum studies, psychology, social work.
Art Minor
As an art minor, you will have the flexibility to focus your experience around a more focused range of mediums. The art minor will culminate in a Junior/Senior capstone experience in ART-391 Creative Practice with a cohort of your peers.
Interested in Art Management?
Art management, or art administration, is the field of using business and organization principles to lead in an artistic setting. Students may combine a major in art and a minor in management (or a major in management and a minor in art) in order to create a course of study suitable for those interested in Art Management.
Careers and Outcomes
More than 96% of Luther College art majors are employed, continuing their education, seeking advanced degrees, or engaged in meaningful volunteer work within one year of graduating. Many Luther art alumni find success in careers in fine arts and commercial arts.
Career Fields
- Practicing fine artists
- Art education
- Art therapy
- Art curation
- Art gallery and collections management
- Studio photography
- Architecture (structural and landscape)
- Graphic design and other digital arts-related careers
Audrey Fashimpaur ’23
Audrey Fashimpaur was one of 500 students from across the country selected for the US State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship Spark program to learn Mandarin; she went on to spend a year in Japan, teaching English. An art major with minors in chemistry, biology and art history, she plans to enter the medical field.
Ultra Mega Mega
Ultra Mega Mega is a pop-up art show at semester’s end to showcase our students’ creativity in visual art, theatre, and dance. Paintings, sculpture, photos, prints, dance, theatre, and more fill the Center for the Arts for one evening. Student creators are on hand to share and answer questions about their art.
