Visual Arts

In an increasingly cluttered communication landscape, the ability to create compelling visual art is a valuable skill that can be applied across a wide range of disciplines and professions. Every industry needs visual storytellers and at Holy Cross College you can build the strong foundation in technical, conceptual, and professional skills needed to launch your career as an artist.

Whether you focus in studio art or graphic design, you will:

• Learn to function as a competent and practiced artist or designer
• Develop deep reasoning, imagination, dexterity, and intuition to solve complex design problems
• Benefit from small classes and close relationships with your professors (our average class size is 12)
• Gain practical experience (100 percent of Holy Cross students participate in at least one internship)
• Showcase your artistic growth in an art exhibition in the St. Joseph Gallery in Driscoll Lounge during your last semester
• Choose between a graphic design, studio arts, and Catholic media track

Our graduates are prepared to continue their studies at the graduate level or pursue a career in the arts. Because of the wide range of career possibilities available to visual arts majors, you might work as:

• An art director, graphic designer, or web designer
• An animator, illustrator, or comic book artist
• A book, set, or product designer
• A photographer, multimedia specialist
• An art educator, design teacher, or museum curator