Saint Louis University's studio art program provides students with experience and guidance in creating art. Students explore their individual artistic abilities while learning to understand and appreciate art in a global context. Connections across disciplines and cultural differences help students gain a conceptual and intellectual framework for their art. Students leave with a portfolio of work and an appreciation of the development of their own values and creative skills as well as an understanding of the artistic processes, expressions and values of others.
Studio art at Saint Louis University provides an opportunity to gain artistic skill and knowledge in various artistic media within the rigorous and supporting framework of a Catholic, Jesuit niversity.
All courses offered in the studio art program are taught by student-focused faculty, not graduate assistants. That means all majors and minors in studio art will study and interact directly with faculty, who are active and professional members of their artistic field.
Saint Louis University houses two nationally recognized art museums: the Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA) and the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA). SLU students, faculty and visiting artists display work in the McNamee Art Gallery, located on the ground floor of historic Cupples House. SLU is near the Grand Center Arts District, where the Contemporary Art Museum and the Pulitzer are located. The Saint Louis Art Museum, located in Forest Park less than two miles from campus, is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums.