Welcome to the Department of Art,
Art History & Design.
We are a multidisciplinary department that offers degrees in three main academic areas. All our courses of study allow you to develop visual literacy and acquire the analytical and research skills required to conceptualize, fabricate, and evaluate works of art and design.
Satisfying the Fine Arts Requirement
Recent Work
Events
Snite Museum Winter Exhibition Schedule 2012
A Grand Flourish: Drawings of Architectural Ornament from the Permanent Collection / Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
January 15–February 26, 2012
"A Strange Enterprise": Drawings of the French Theatre from the Permanent Collection / Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
March 18–May 6, 2012
DIGNITY and A Person’s Worth
January 15 – March 11, 2012
Rousseau 2012 and Dignity : Are We Just Yet?
Lecture by Christie Mc Donald, professor of French and comparative literature, Harvard University
January 18, 2012 at 5pm.
Artist in Residence: Working Drawings by Luigi Gregori, 1819-1896
January 15 – March 11, 2012
Art and Literature at the Service of the People
Posters and Books from Puerto Rico’s Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO)
January 22 – March 11, 2012
Father Collins installation piece/exhibition extended through spring 2012
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Michigan
Austin I. Collins, C.S.C., Professor of Sculpture, Department of Art, Art History and Design, University of Notre Dame, exhibition at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Michigan, has been extended through spring 2012. This exhibition features Collins’s installation art piece entitled “Technophilia II”.
Teresa James and Matthew Schommer: Roots of Our Father
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Isis Gallery - O’Shaughnessy Hall
Please join us for the opening reception of Roots of Our Father featuring work by Teresa James and Matthew Schommer. The reception will take place Thursday, January 26, 2012 in the Department of Art, Art History & Design’s ISIS Gallery located in O’Shaughnessy Hall. Both artists are scheduled to be in attendance.
Chad Hartwig showcased in Beyond the Brickyard 2012
Sat Feb 4, 2012, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
Ceramics Technician and Notre Dame MFA Chad Hartwig's piece Rudy's Rainbow Soul has been selected for the Beyond the Brickyard Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition. Juried by 2011 Voulkos Fellow Richard Shaw, the selected works were chosen from over 250 applicants, from entrants worldwide. The exhibition will run February 4 –April 7, 2012.
Lecture: Kevin Henry
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
Riley Hall of Art & Design Room 200
Kevin Henry of Columbia College Chicago will lecture on Thursday evening, February 9, 2012 at 7:00pm in Room 200 of Riley Hall.
Gallery Talk: Sophia Meyers
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Snite Museum of Art
Reception from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. to celebrate the four special exhibitions on view from mid-January through early March, with a 3:00p.m. gallery talk on the Luigi Gregori drawings exhibition.
Lecture: David Franklin
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Annenberg Auditorium - Snite Museum of Art
David Franklin, Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art will give his lecture Destroying Art: Caravaggio and his Followers on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 4:30 in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art.
MFA student Benjamin Funke in Chicago exhibition
ACRE Projects (1913 W 17th Street) Chicago
MFA Benjamin Funke will be in an exhibition with Tony Balko at ACRE Projects in Chicago. The exhibition of nine analog projections will open on July 1.
News
Anna O'Meara's essay accepted for National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Senior art history major Anna O'Meara's essay titled "Cinema Against Cinema : Imagery in the Films of Guy Debord" has been accepted for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Gabrielle Gopinath's essay to be presented at Cinesonika 2: the Second International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design
Gabrielle Gopinath's essay titled "Schizophonia and the Moving Image" will be presented at Cinesonika 2: the Second International Film and Video Festival of Sound Design, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia in February.
Art History MA Sophia Meyers returns as guest curator for Snite Exhibition
Art History MA (2010) Sophia Meyers is returning to the University of Notre Dame to serve as guest curator in the Snite Museum of Art exhibition Artist in Residence: Working Drawings by Luigi Gregori (1819 - 1896).
MFA student's label recognized in Artforum's "Best of" list
Benjamin Funke's Captcha Records has been featured in Artforum's "best music of 2011" list with the release of Philip Cohran and Legacy's album African Skies.
Also, check out this article in the Oxford American about the project.
Publications: Gabrielle Gopinath
We are pleased to announce publication of two recent pieces by Art History Professor Gabrielle Gopinath.
Congratulations, Alisa Rantanen!
Please congratulate Alisa Rantanen for winning a Divisional First Place in the 2011 Design the Next Studebaker Competition.
Graphic Designer Robert Sedlack Wins Pair of National Awards
Robert Sedlack, an associate professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Art, Art History and Design, recently won two American Graphic Design Awards for University-related projects.
Graphic Design USA magazine honored Sedlack ’89 for his work on the Parallel Currents exhibition catalogue for the University’s Snite Museum of Art and for Words for Painting, an artist’s monograph showcasing the work of Notre Dame Assistant Professor Jason Lahr.
2010-2011 Newsletter
Welcome to the first annual newsletter from the Department of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Notre Dame. This newsletter gathers together news items and events associated with our department in 2010-11. It is our hope that this will give you the opportunity to consider all the work we do and to reflect upon the outstanding achievements of our faculty, our students, and our alumni. Download pdf
And the winners are…
Congratulations to both Ceramics MFA Jessica Zekus and Ceramics Professor Bill Kremer for their award winning pieces in the 33rd Elkhart Juried Regional art show!
But will I get a job?
Contrary to what some might assume, especially given the current job market, University of Notre Dame Studio Art, Art History and Design majors have demonstrated consistently high rates of placement after graduation.
Design Alumnus Turns Artists' Visions Into Reality
An industrial design major, Hunt ’01 specializes in managing large-scale art projects for cultural institutions such as the Indianapolis Museum of Art, his primary client since 2007 and commissioner of the U.S. pavilion.
Senior’s Interactive Toy Design May Aid Children with Autism
When Notre Dame senior Dan Jacobs signed up for an elective while studying in London last year, he wasn’t expecting that his course selection—seemingly unrelated to his industrial design major—would spark the idea for his B.F.A. thesis project, or potentially help thousands of children.
Exhibition of Italian Prints and Drawings on View at the Georgia Museum of Art
Associate art history professor Robert Randolf Coleman and Babette Bohn, professor of art history at Texas Christian University, guest curate "The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art" featuring 53 works on paper produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries at the Georgia Museum of Art.
