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Loyola University Chicago Fine Arts Program

The official page for the Fine Arts Program at Loyola University Chicago. Loyola Chicago offers a prime location for this study of fine arts.

The Fine Arts Program at Loyola University Chicago aims to enable students to develop and refine their modes of perception while expressing themselves in a variety of ways. To accomplish this goal, the department offers instruction that examines an array of studio media from their multifaceted historical and ethnic perspectives. The Department of Fine Arts prepares students to gain technical exper

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12/17/2024

🎨 Submission Deadline: Tuesday, December 2024 🎨 be sure to get your application in over the next two weeks! Link in bio for details + application! 🎨

All Fine Arts students are invited to submit artwork to the annual Student Juried Exhibition, including drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, ceramics, and sculpture, or any combination thereof. All entries must be original works completed in the last year. Selected works will be exhibited at the Ralph Arnold Gallery in Spring 2024.

12/11/2024

OPENING TOMORROW: Explore the intersection of language and design in Eye to I, a remarkable exhibition at the Ralph Arnold Gallery! 👁️ 🔠

Featuring a collaborative, large-scale typographic installation based upon creative ideation workshops led by Jessica Lanay, Loyola’s 2024-2025 Artist/Scholar-in-Residence, this showcase celebrates the power of collective ingenuity. Visual Communication students collaborated with faculty workshop organizers Jenii Bowman, Josh Cook, and Kelli Evans to bring this vision to life. Experience how innovative approaches to expression come together to challenge perspectives and spark meaningful dialogue, creating a unique and immersive visual and literary encounter. 🌟

📍Ralph Arnold Gallery, 1131 W Sheridan Rd
🎟️ Free entry!

11/18/2024

📣 Open Call for Student Artwork for the 2024 Student Juried Exhibition! | Application opens TODAY Monday, November 18th. Link in bio for details and application 📣

All Fine Arts students are invited to submit artwork to the annual Student Juried Exhibition, including drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, ceramics, sculpture, or any combination thereof. All entries must be original works completed in the last year. Selected works will be exhibited at the Ralph Arnold Gallery in Spring 2025.

🎨 Submission Deadline: Tuesday, December 31st 🎨

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11/14/2024

LAST CHANCE: "What Were You Dreaming When You Were Killed?" closes this Saturday (11/16). Don't miss the opportunity to see Denea Howard's solo show curated by Loyola University Chicago artist and scholar-in-residence Jessica Lanay!

📍 Ralph Arnold Gallery
🎟️ Free, no tickets necessary

11/09/2024

🎨 Loyola University Chicago students will present individual works of art at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday, November 16th from 11 am to 5 pm! 🎨

All students, faculty, and staff have free access to this interactive event! Show a Loyola ID at the Modern Wing lobby registration table, located at 159 East Monroe Street to receive your complimentary tickets! 🎟️

11/02/2024

Only TWO Weeks left to see Denea Howard's solo show, "What Were You Dreaming When You Were Killed?" curated by artist and scholar-in-residence Jessica Lanay! Hear from the curator and head over to the Ralph Arnold Gallery to check out the exhibition.

📍Ralph Arnold Gallery, 1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660
On display now through November 16th, 2024!
Free entry

10/20/2024

Join Denea Howard and Jessica Lanay on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22nd for the "What Were You Dreaming When You Were Killed?" Opening Reception and Artist Talk in the Ralph Arnold Gallery!

Tuesday, October 22nd, 5-7 pm
📍Ralph Arnold Gallery, 1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660

In this exhibition, Denae Howard contemplates and shares the radical potential of the time-space of dreams as radical realms of liberatory imagination. Howard searches for pathways where the freedom found in dreams or the warnings found in nightmares can take physical space in our current, troubled, reality. Presenting imagery from a quantum space of living otherwise, Howard explores the possibilities for critical and joyful reflection on the importance of reimagining what it means to be human.

10/15/2024

📣OPENING THURSDAY📣: In this exhibition curated by artist and scholar-in-residence Jessica Lanay, Denae Howard contemplates and shares the radical potential of the time-space of dreams as radical realms of liberatory imagination. Howard searches for pathways where the freedom found in dreams or the warnings found in nightmares can take physical space in our current, troubled, reality. Presenting imagery from a quantum space of living otherwise, Howard explores the possibilities for critical and joyful reflection on the importance of reimagining what it means to be human.

📍 Ralph Arnold Gallery, 1131 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660, 1st Floor
🎉 October 22, 5-7 pm: Opening reception, gallery walk-through, and artist talk

"What Were You Dreaming When You Were Killed?" runs from October 17-November 16, 2024.

Graphic Design by D Josh Cook, MDes

09/10/2024

THIS THURSDAY is FNAR Fest 2024 hosted by Loyola's Department of Fine Arts! 🎨 Grab a friend and join us for a FREE art-filled evening including the opening reception of "Fundamentals: Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition," button making, art history trivia, workshops, and complimentary food and drink!

🕔 5-7 pm, Thursday 9/12
📍Ralph Arnold Annex
🎟️ Free entry!

FNAR Fest 2024 poster and motion graphics designed by Josh Cook, MDes, Lecturer of Fine Arts in Visual Communications.

09/06/2024

Loyola University Chicago's Fine Arts Program is excited to announce Jessica Lanay (she/they) as the 2024-25 Artist-in-Residence! 🎉 To read more about Jessica's experience check out their website: https://ow.ly/QFgW50ThEtP

In the Fall, Lanay will organize both a colloquium and an exhibition in the Ralph Arnold Gallery. The colloquium will be an evening event where experimental performance artists Jefferson Pinder and Ayana Evans. Lanay will also curate a solo exhibition of works by New York City artist Denae Howard in the Ralph Arnold. During the Spring semester, Lanay will teach a course on African Art. In an effort to work with Chicago-based artistic communities and to provide a campus-wide example of contemporary African Diasporan art as a tie into the course, Lanay will work with the organization A Long Walk Home to bring their installation Black Girl Altar to the Ralph Arnold Gallery. The exhibition will be organized in collaboration with A Long Walk Home, Ayana Evans, and art objects from the May Weber African Art Collection.

06/12/2024

Instructor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications Kevin McGroarty’s recent posters for Loyola University Chicago Theatre mainstage productions of AS YOU LIKE IT and FAIRVIEW have been awarded Honorable Mention in Graphis Magazine’s juried International Poster competition 2025. Chosen by an esteemed jury of industry experts, his work will be highlighted on the website and listed in the Graphis Poster 2025 book.

Graphis has been chronicling creative excellence since 1944 , inspiring professionals and emerging talents worldwide. Graphis is committed to celebrating global visual communication excellence by championing the most influential work across Design, Advertising, Photography, and Illustration Art.

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06/06/2024

Tour our program this summer! Are you a rising high school junior or senior passionate about the Arts? Schedule an on-campus tour of the Loyola University Chicago Fine Arts Program to learn more about our unique BA program and experience our facilities.

The Fine Arts Program at Loyola offers majors and minors in Art History, Painting/Drawing/Printmaking, Sculpture & Ceramics, Photography, and Visual Communication (graphic design) within a liberal arts education.

Link to schedule a tour: https://ow.ly/6Te350PKJWO

05/02/2024

Loyola Fine Arts Senior Exhibition 2024: THIS CAN’T BE IT | Closing Reception | Thursday, May 9 | 3:00PM | Loyola Museum of Art (LUMA)

Jon us in celebrating the work of Loyola seniors studying art and visual communication design. The work shown represents the culmination of each student’s experiences as a Fine Arts major. With a variety of approaches to making across multiple disciplines, this exhibition represents the ambition, passion, and activism that make Loyolans stand out. These students are challenging assumptions, mining the culture around them, and creating meaning through innovative design and compelling investigations of space, society and the self.

Featuring Works By: Mariana Arnold • Julia Bade • Elizabeth Balentine • Sarah Bedortha • Kyle Boone • Nicole Caron • Amber V Cerpa • Erica D’Souza • Meagan Earhart • Angelina Giovannielli • Safia Ismail • Catherine Kammerer • Hannah Lichwalla • Anya Lu • Belle McGovern • Mike McGuire • Mary Clare Muehlemann • Zayd Mushtaq • Alazandrea Thelen • Paulene Pascua • Sofi Rife • Nora Ryan • Madeline Soman • Rose Tuvesson • Isabella Varani • Lauren Venable • Makenna Warnkes • Erica Wong

Space is limited so reserve your FREE tickets: https://ow.ly/13pR50RhKTh

Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
Loyola University Chicago College of Arts and Sciences

04/30/2024

Loyola Fine Arts Senior Exhibition 2024: THIS CAN’T BE IT | Gallery Hours are FREE and open to the public.

• Friday, April 26th: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
• Tuesday, April 30th: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
• Thursday, May 2nd: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
• Monday, May 6th: 1:00 – 6:00 PM
• Wednesday, May 8th: 1:00 – 6:00 PM
• Thursday, May 9th: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
Water Tower Campus
820 N Michigan Ave.

Entrance is on E. Tower Ct., facing Michigan Ave.

04/24/2024

Join us for the opening reception of the Loyola Fine Arts Senior Exhibition 2024: THIS CAN’T BE IT | Friday, April 26 | 6:00PM | Loyola Museum of Art (LUMA)

Featuring Works By: Mariana Arnold • Julia Bade • Elizabeth Balentine • Sarah Bedortha • Kyle Boone • Nicole Caron • Amber V Cerpa • Erica D’Souza • Meagan Earhart • Angelina Giovannielli • Safia Ismail • Catherine Kammerer • Hannah Lichwalla • Anya Lu • Belle McGovern • Mike McGuire • Mary Clare Muehlemann • Zayd Mushtaq • Alazandrea Thelen • Paulene Pascua • Sofi Rife • Nora Ryan • Madeline Soman • Rose Tuvesson • Isabella Varani • Lauren Venable • Makenna Warnkes • Erica Wong

Space is limited so reserve your FREE tickets: https://ow.ly/13pR50RhKTh

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Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA)
Loyola University Chicago College of Arts and Sciences

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The major goal of the Fine Arts Program at Loyola University Chicago is to enable students to develop and refine their modes of perception while expressing themselves in a variety of ways.

To accomplish this goal, the department offers instruction that examines an array of studio media from their multifaceted historical and ethnic perspectives. The Department of Fine Arts prepares students to gain technical expertise which qualifies them to begin careers or to meet graduate school requirements.

Loyola Chicago offers a prime location for this study of fine arts. Its museums, concert halls, and libraries are a vast resource for academic study. And because this city constantly produces fresh examples of jazz, architecture, and public art, Loyola students gain vital access to the living history and practice of the arts.

The Fine Arts program offers several majors: art history, ceramics, drawing and painting, photography, and visual communication. Each student’s course of study is tailored through consultation with an advisor to his or her needs, capabilities, and professional goals. This flexibility stresses individuality and allows students to broaden and enhance their professional experience.

We offer coursework in Art History, Dance, Music, Musical Theatre, Studio Art, Theatre, and Visual Communication. Students can choose a course of study from any of our 7 different majors or 10 different minors, or simply choose to explore a class in the art that interests them.As an exclusively undergraduate liberal arts program, our courses are open to all Loyola students and require no audition or portfolio review for admittance into our programs. However, several of our classes require the completion of pre-requisite courses and a few require placement auditions to assure students are placed in classes appropriate to their skill level. The DFPA also offers a certificate in Graphic Design for non-degree seeking students.

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