Art

THE DEPARTMENT OF ART
The Art Department develops your perceptual and creative gifts in response to creation in all of its diverse forms. One of the foremost Christian art colleges, Gordon's offers a strong fine arts basis that helps you find your place in the scope of art history. An emphasis on traditional artistic skills coupled with a willingness to engage contemporary art issues and trends makes the program a top choice for Christian college art students.

Art majors can expect to:

• Study observational drawing with a figurative focus.
• Learn to implement the formal elements of design including composition, balance, color and form.
• Be presented with the visual and theoretical range of perspectives in art history from ancient to postmodern.
• Attend Periodic field trips to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and many other world-class art museums and galleries.
• Choose an area of concentration in art by your junior year:
        *   Design
        *   Drawing/Printmaking
        *   Painting
        *   Sculpture
        *   Art Education
• Mount a thesis exhibit in your senior year
• Graduate with a complimentary 1-year membership with CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts)

FURTHER STUDY
If you choose to pursue further study in more specialized areas of design, art history, art therapy or any medium area, whether two or three-dimensionally oriented, we offer:

• Graduate school advisement
• Portfolio preparations and recommendations for submitting art work to galleries
• Internships in galleries, museums and professional design studios

Many of our Art majors are also education majors, and directly communicate to their students the concepts, methods and other various ways of seeing.

BARRINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
The department resides in the Barrington Center for the Arts. Opened in August of 1999, the facility includes two modern galleries used to exhibit works of both professional and student artists. Visiting artists provide insightful lectures and critiques for the benefit of all art majors as well as the Gordon community. 
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Studio facilities include:

• 3 drawing and painting studios
• 2 sculpture studios
• Outdoor Sculpture Studio
• Hand, power and pneumatic tools
• Fully-equipped Photography studio
• 2 Printmaking Studios
• Etching and lithography presses
• Woodshop
• Computer lab for Design
• 9 Senior studios

GLOBAL EDUCATION
You can choose among many semester, year-long, short-term or summer abroad programs around the globe through the Global Education Office(GEO). Tuition for the programs is generally the same as a regular semester or a year on campus. Check out some of the many opportunities:

• Gordon in Orvieto
• Oxford Summer Institute
• Summer Renaissance Studies
• Studio Art Centers International Program

THE RETURN DESIGN COLLABORATIVE
Gordon runs an innovative, entrepreneurial design firm which provides graphic and Web design for nonprofit and art-related clients. Students may apply to be interns, gaining valuable professional experience while learning important computer-based design skills. 
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Acceptance into this program is by application to:
Tim Ferguson-Sauder
Director, Return Design
p: 978.927.2300 x4284
e: tim.ferguson-saudergordon.edu