Visual Arts




Create, innovate, communicate
As a visual artist, you create, innovate, and communicate. You share beauty, you share experiences, you share thoughts and feelings that help people to connect. In the College of Arts and Architecture, we’ll help you hone your skills, nurture your creativity, and prepare you for the next step.
Undergraduate
Degrees
Undergraduate
Minors + Certificates
Graduate
Degrees
Alumni Spotlight
View your education as an opportunity to explore...get weird and fail a few times – it’s a great way to learn.

Alumni Spotlight
Colleen Wade
B.Des. in Graphic Design 2019Soon after graduating, Colleen Wade landed her dream job at Burton Snowboards, where she is a production designer. She credits her Penn State education with preparing her well for this position, which has given her the opportunity to combine her passion for snowboarding and love of design.


Galleries, Studios & Workshops


Patterson Gallery

Private: SoVA Makerspace

SoVA Wood & Metal Shop

Zoller Gallery
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Faculty Spotlight
Amara Solari
Professor of Art History and Anthropology
Amara Solari teaches courses in Latin American art from the pre-Columbian through the colonial period. Her research focuses on processes of cultural, visual, and theological interchange between indigenous groups and Spanish settlers of New Spain. She recently received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her research project, “Maya Christian Murals of Yucatán: Indigenous Catholicism in Early Modern New Spain,” which focuses on fragile religious murals painted by Christianized Maya artists in Yucatán, Mexico, between 1550 and 1750.

News from A&A
School of Visual Arts shop staff create special award for students who bat it out of the park
“The Shop,” as it is fondly known in the Penn State School of Visual Arts (SoVA), isn’t just a room filled with tools and equipment. It is also a classroom