Join Dr. Sharon Graf and the Itchy Fingers String Band for a lecture-performance on maritime music from Melville to Master and Commander. Sing along to a sea chantey. Bring your lunch!
The Visual Arts program and the Psychology department work in tandem to offer a minor in Art Therapy. The minor meets the American Art Therapy Association's basic requirements for entrance into their approved graduate programs by requiring 18 studio art credits and 13 psychology credits.
The minor encourages breadth of exploration while providing students with a foundation to prepare them for continued study or to work in community arts programs and organizations where art is used as part of the therapeutic or recreational process.
The Art History minor is a 15-16 credit hour course of study focusing on the foundations, meanings and implications of the history of art. The undergraduate minor is designed for students wanting to gain an insight into different aspects of art history; understand how art history is related to culture and history; and recognize how the visual arts affects who we are as individuals, contributes to our humanity and deepens our understanding of the relationships between humans and society.
Elevate your academic journey with a Visual Arts minor at UIS!
In Visual Arts courses, faculty and students work together in a professional and creative learning environment.
Welcome to the exciting journey of the B.A. in Visual Arts at UIS! We're here to help you unlock your creativity, refine your skills and prepare for a future full of artistic possibilities.
Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson is a professor of theatre in the Art, Music, and Theatre Department.
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Join us in Sangamon Auditorium for the UIS Orchestra Festival Concert featuring the UIS Orchestra and Illinois Symphony Orchestra Youth Ensembles. Repertoire includes Elgar’s Enigma Variations, one of the best-known English orchestral works of all time whose enigma has yet to be solved. In the words of the composer: “The Enigma I will not explain – its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the connexion between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture; further, through and over the whole set another and larger theme ‘goes’, but is not played . . . . So the principal Theme never appears, even as in some late dramas – e.g. Maeterlinck’s L’Intruse and Les sept Princesses – the chief character is never on the stage.”
Featuring the UIS Band in a program of music from around the world including "Cajun Folk Songs" by Frank Ticheli, Greek Folk Song Suite by Franco Cesarini and Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance.
If you have a piece of art or a historical/cultural artifact on display in your office or area and you plan to remove it, please do not throw it away. Contact the Art & Artifacts Committee or the UIS Archivist.