What You Can Do With A Major in Studio Art or in Art History

The most basic answer to the question, What do you do with a major in Studio Art or in Art History is to take lifelong pleasure and achieve personal enrichment by creating, viewing, and understanding art in a historical context. A major in Studio Art or in Art History also prepares students for a variety of different careers, and our graduates follow many different and exciting paths. The following list gives just a few examples of the kinds of professional work our majors are doing, from the recent graduates to those well established professionally.

Examples of positions obtained by art graduates:

• Designer for TBWA Advertising, New York
•  Director, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
• Professor of art history, Loyola University, Chicago
• Owner of galleries specializing in old masters paintings, New York & Paris
• Professor of ceramics, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey
• Landscape Architect, Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Education coordinator, Bullseye Glass, Portland
• Co-owner of art gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Examples of museum and gallery work:

• Partner, Shepherd Galleries in New York.
• Founder of Haboldt Galleries, New York and Paris
• Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland
• Publications Manager and Graphic Designer for the newly named and relocated Museum of Contemporary Crafts in Portland.
• Founder of Gallery 500 in Portland.

Examples of journalism and filmmaking:

• Photojournalist. Featured in Aperture this past year and has published essays in Photo District News, the New York Times, and Time Magazine.
• Documentary Filmmaker. Documented the impact of the Hanford Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Depot.
• Assistant at Mirabella Studios
• Provides visual references for commercial, film, and music video directors in Los Angeles.

Examples of teaching and graduate work:

• Professor of Art History at Loyola University, Chicago.
• Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Wichita State University, Kansas
• Art Department Chair and Professor of Ceramics at Rowen University, NJ
• MFA in photography from Columbia College in Chicago.
• MFA in sculpture from Portland State University.
• MFA in Ceramics at the University of Tennessee
• MFA in Ceramics at the University of Arizona
• MFA in Sculpture at Chico State
• MFA in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate School of Art
• MFA in Sculpture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
• MFA Pennsylvania Academy of Art
• MA in Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
• MA in Architecture, University of Oregon

Examples of art in business:

• Public Relations Manager at Groth Vineyards, Napa Valley
• Interior Design
• Sustainable Architecture firm
• Landscape Architecture

Examples of student internships:

• Portland Art Museum, Portland
• Lis DeMarco Graphic Design Agency, Portland
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Fletcher Finch Farr Architects, Portland
• University of Oregon Museum, Eugene
• Drawing Center, New York
• Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
• Polaroid 20 x 24 Studio, New York
• Oregon Historical Society, Portland