Art & Art History - major

Art history majors explore art from prehistory to the present through classes and experiences such as the Rothschild-Johnson Art Weekend in New York City. Arts Merit Scholarships for incoming students, internships and study-abroad opportunities further strengthen the learning experience.

The Department of Art & Art History offers a bachelor of arts degree as well as minors in both studio art or art history. Majors in each course of study complete a culminating experience. In studio art, seniors create final projects and exhibit their work in the Samek Art Museum’s Campus Gallery. Art history majors write an original research paper, which they present at a departmental symposium.

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Bucknell’s Samek Art Museum creates meaningful encounters between artists, students, scholars, the public and works of art. Explore pop-up exhibitions and permanent art installations at the Campus Gallery, the Downtown Gallery, the Collection Study Room and locations across campus.

Presenting visual fine art in critical contexts, the museum is an academic art lab where experimental art, innovative curatorial practices and co-curricular programming generate new ways to engage and inspire audiences.

Faculty and students take advantage of Bucknell's proximity to major museums and galleries through regularly scheduled trips and individual travel to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Each year, the three-day, alumni-supported Rothschild-Johnson Art Weekend introduces students to art galleries and museums in New York City.

Through this interdisciplinary minor, students interested in working in the arts gain the skills needed to manage, market and promote arts organizations, and both commercial and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media and/or literary arts. The minor consists of five interdisciplinary courses and an arts internship.

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