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

Alumni Spotlight
Karin Satrom
B.Des. in Graphic Design 2001Karin Satrom leverages her degree in graphic design and photography as the design director at the Metropolitan Opera, where she oversees and creates the concepts and designs for all print and digital materials for each season. To improve efficiency, she reorganized the design team to create an “in-house agency,” the Met Opera Studio.



Galleries, Studios & Workshops


Patterson Gallery

SoVA Makerspace

SoVA Wood & Metal Shop

Zoller Gallery
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Faculty Spotlight
Amara Solari
Associate Professor of Art History
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.

Events
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Music Academic CalendarSchool of Music Virtual Graduate Jury Recognition Recital
Music Academic CalendarTogether, Alone
https://sites.psu.edu/togetheraloneNews from A&A
Graphic design professor earns gold in Graphis photography competition
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Taylor Shipton, assistant teaching professor of graphic design, earned a gold award in the Graphis Photography Annual 2021 competition for her work that examines the history