Undergraduates in the Interdisciplinary Visible Arts (IVA) program develop skills and knowledge within the visual arts by completion of chosen programs in studio art (ceramics, glass, portray, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, and photography), art history, and associated experiential courses. Considers nineteenth-century European painting and printmaking in relation to the construction of nature and the traditionally particular methods of seeing that emerge from it. Key artists and teams of artists embody: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Corot, the Barbizon Faculty, J.-J. Grandville, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the Impressionists.

With fabrication, the artist creates a design and pays a fabricator to produce it. This permits sculptors to create larger and more advanced sculptures out of fabric like cement, steel and plastic, that they would not be capable to create by hand.

Within the Netherlands and Berlin, Performing Arts Administration and Visual Arts Administration students evaluate and contrast the administration of cultural establishments in the U.S. and Europe, with an emphasis on cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, funding mechanisms, globalism and mobility, and cultural identity and variety.

This course examines history of Western art and architecture by means of such defining issues as the respective roles of tradition and innovation in the production and appreciation of art; the relation of artwork to its broader mental and historical contexts; and the changing concepts of the monument, the artist, meaning, type, and artwork” itself.

The Visible Arts Administration MA program addresses the whole artwork ecology, together with the cultural setting in which art and humanities organizations function; the function of the artist in society; how art work is documented, offered and interpreted; the structure and administration of organizations that show artwork – both non-revenue and for-profit; and the position of art theorists, critics, curators, and collectors.