The Department of Art at Moravian provides students with a curriculum rooted in the liberal arts, preparing them for careers in graphic/interactive design, studio art, art education, and art history. Working as artists, scholars, designers, museum curators, and teachers, graduates combine conceptual, intellectual, and technical skills with their understanding of the need for art today, and its purposes in the past. The strong commitment required to succeed as an artist is fostered through collaborative projects led by a diverse faculty of working artists and experienced educators.

A portfolio is required for acceptance into the studio art, graphic design, and art education programs.

Learn more:

• Official Department Website
• View Department Fact Sheet (.pdf)
• Courses
• Facilities
• Opportunities
• Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty
• Emeriti

Courses

ART HISTORY

• Global Perspectives in Art History to Renaissance
• Art History since the Renaissance
• Artists as Activists
• History of Photography
• African Art
• Art of the Renaissance
• Art of the 19th Century
• WI: Modern Art
• Art History Workshop
• Special Topics
• Independent Study
• Field Study
• Honors

STUDIO ART

• Design: Three-Dimensional
• Intro to Ceramics
• Photojournalism
• Photography I, II, III
• Historic Photo Processes
• Art of the Lens
• Digital Photography
• Digital Video
• Printmaking and Book Arts
• Drawing I, II, Advanced
• Painting I, II, Advanced
• Senior Seminar
• Senior Projects
• Special Topics
• Independent Study
• Field Study
• Honors

GRAPHIC AND INTERACTIVE DESIGN

• Introduction to Graphic Design
• Publication Design
• Graphic Design: History and Practice
• Typography
• Animation
• Design Internship and Seminar
• Portfolio Seminar
• Interactive Design
• Special Topics
• Independent Study
• Field Study
• Honors

ART EDUCATION

• Art in the Elementary School -- for Elementary Education majors
• Crafts Workshop in Education (Art Education Strategies)
• Art and Child Development
• Curriculum and Instruction in Art Education
• Art Education Student Teaching
• Special Topics
• Honors

Facilities

Students in advanced studio courses are provided with studios for individual work and independent study. All studios are open 24 hours a day. The Priscilla Payne Hurd Center for Music and Art includes a photography lab, a ceramics lab, and two graphic design/new media labs equipped with Power Macintosh computers, scanners, color and black-and-white printers, digital cameras and video cameras, and many other advanced features for graphic and interactive design, digital photography, digital video and film-making, and other new media processes. The Payne Gallery has a rotating exhibition schedule featuring national and international exhibits as well as regional work, work by emerging artists, faculty and graduating senior shows, and the Moravian College Permanent collection.

Opportunities

Art Club, offering seminars, workshops, and trips to regional art galleries and museums, including those in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston; the international honorary art society, Kappa Pi; study trips abroad; and special study topics.

Faculty

KRISTIN BAXTER
Assistant Professor of Art

EDUCATION: B.A., New York University; M.A., Case Western Reserve University; Ed.D., Teachers College Columbia University

INTERESTS: Dr. Baxter’s research and teaching interests center on the role of creativity and experience in nurturing children’s artistic development. She has written for journals such as the International Journal of Art and Design Education, Art Education, Teaching Artist Journal, and School Arts and published her first book in 2009 entitled, Recollections of family photographs from five generations: The role of narrative and reflexivity in organizing experience (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Publishers). Her artwork has been in galleries at Columbia University in New York City and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is on the executive board of the Pennsylvania Art Education Association.

ANGELA L. FRALEIGH
Associate Professor, Art Department Chair, Spring 2012 through Fall 2012

EDUCATION: B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., Yale University School of Art

DIANE RADYCKI
Associate Professor of Art; Director of the Payne Gallery

EDUCATION: B.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Harvard University

INTERESTS: Late 19th- and early 20th-century art. Dr. Radycki’s forthcoming monograph, Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist, will be published by Yale University Press in spring 2013.

KRISTA L. STEINKE
Associate Professor of Art, Art Department Chair, resuming Spring 2013

EDUCATION: B.A., Valparaiso University; B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.F.A., The Maryland Institute College of Art

Adjunct Faculty

• Michael Burmeister, studio art
• Jan Ciganick, art history 
• Ted Colegrove, web design
• Renzo Faggioli, ceramics
• Jeff Hurwitz, photography (Artist-in-Residence)
• Aron Johnston, studio art
• Martha Kearns, art history
• Kristine Kotsch, photography
• Barbara Kozero, art education and studio
• Elizabeth Krenos, graphic design
• Saori Moriizumi
• Michelle J. Oosterbaan
• Douglas Zucco, mixed media

Emeriti

• Rudy Ackerman