The Department of Fine Arts welcomes students to experience art through scholarship and as a process of creation. By uniting intellectual inquiry with artist excellence, we affirm the importance of a broad education and prepare our students for creative participation in a changing society.
Founded in 1951 by social realist painter, Mitchell Siporin, the Department of Fine Arts features a distinguished faculty of acclaimed artists and accomplished art historians. Though the department consists of two separate majors and three minors, the curriculum overlaps as we aim to imbue studio artists with a rich historical context and grant art historians a hands-on exposure to the practice.
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The Arts at Brandeis
The creative arts were conceived as a significant foundational component of Brandeis from its inception. Meet some of the current creative arts students who are sustaining that legacy along with their exceptional faculty in the Creative Arts at Brandeis brochure.