Use Your Imagination
Both of our degree programs, the B.A. in applied or studio art and the B.S. in art education provide a broad foundation of courses in traditional techniques and processes designed to improve your skills while stimulating your creative imagination. Upon satisfactory completion of these foundation level courses, you may apply for admission into the degree program. You will know your strengths and weaknesses very well by this time. Upper division course work allows you to build on your strengths and develop your own personal expressive content through advanced study.

Get a Degree
The Bachelor of Arts provides the basis for many art related occupations and for further study in leading graduate schools. You will gain extensive exposure to painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, or another area of your choice. The program culminates in the Senior Exhibit, an exhibition of your own artistic accomplishments.

The Bachelor of Science fully enables you to enter a career in public education. Building on these foundation courses, students are directed through a series of education courses, leading to teacher certification. This program also culminates in a Senior Project (an exhibition or research) and a professional semester of student teaching.

Make Stuff - Meet People - Go Places
Our art facilities are housed in three buildings. Our Gallery in Archer Hall, a prominent 19th century residence where high ceilings and many windows also provide the setting for painting, drawing, and design studios. The Kelsey Building, and old glove factory with a large open atmosphere, contains the studios and equipment for ceramics and sculpture classes. Another turn of the century house provides individual studios for juniors and seniors, allowing both needed isolation and the desired interaction available in a community setting.

We take full advantage of our proximity to two major metropolitan cultural centers, Chicago and St. Louis. Frequent day-long and overnight excursions to their museums and galleries prove invaluable to your overall art experience. In addition, our campus regularly schedules changing exhibitions of contemporary and historical, regional and national art work. You will also have opportunities to enter work in a student exhibition held once a semester. This exposure of your work stimulates healthy creative energy conducive to continued improvement.

Who Cares
At Greenville, you will be taught art by artists. By observing working artists grappling with ideas, materials, and processes, in addition to your classroom and studio instruction, you will gain competence in both traditional and experimental art. Our faculty are interested not only in your artistic development, but in you and your career. As you interact with them both inside and outside the classrooms and studios, you can count on them to help you assess your career options and then to assist you in preparing for your goals.