The Art Department offers a BA in Art with areas of Concentration in Graphic Design, Illustration, Animation, Art History, Visual Art Education (Prek-5 and 5-12), Art Therapy Preparation, and Fine Arts. The Department also offers five minors in Art History, Art, Fine Art, Graphic Design, and Animation. Our students have the opportunity to participate in professional internships, capstone and thesis classes, the Graphic Design and Fine Arts Clubs, the creation of the Department's DART journal, the Theta Lambda Chapter of Kappa Pi, and the Annual Student Art Exhibition. The art studios in The Catherine Dower Center for Performing and Fine Arts are open to all art majors, minors and students that are taking art classes for all of their studio-related projects. All courses are open to the university’s students who meet the proper prerequisites of each class. The faculty at Westfield State encourage student experimentation and independence of thought in a creative environment. Due to our comfortable studio and lecture class size, you'll have the advantage of working one on one with these professors who are professional practitioners in their fields of study. Trips to regional museums and galleries are a regular part of the department’s art classes along with presentations and workshops with regional and national visiting artist.