Photography

The mission of Pixel Press is to cultivate community amongst students interested in printmaking and photography and promote the Department of Art + Art History across campus. Through organized events and workshops, Pixel Press aims to provide students with a broad range of experiences in both mediums. The club provides a platform for students to make, display and sell their work, engage in collaborative activities with each other and the broader campus and community, bring in visiting artists, and participate in field trips to relevant museums and conferences. Anyone is welcome to join!

In addition to the artists who visit campus through The Print Rebellion, the department also has an established visiting artist program – Art Talks. This program creates access to artists in person and via webcam, and helps students and faculty to keep pace with critical thought, contemporary artistic practice, and emerging technology used in cultural production today.

The list of visiting printmaking & imaging arts artists includes:

• Jaime Aelavanthara, Assistant Professor, University of Tampa
• Michael Barnes, Professor, Northern Illinois University
• Chris Fritton (the Itinerant Printer), a poet, printer, and fine artist
• Kathryn Hunter, fine artist in South Louisiana.
• Anne Massoni, Dean of Education, International Center of Photography, New York, New York
• Jim Ramer, Director of Graduate Studies at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City 
• Sean StarWars, Artist in Residence, Eton College, Eton, UK

Our museum has recently in the past years have been named to EDsmart’s list of “51 Most Astounding University Museums”, with a recent ranking of 17—one spot ahead of Princeton University. Many art students intern or volunteer with the UM Museum where they might work with art education programs or curate an exhibit.

In the museum, you can study the David M. Robinson Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities, one of the finest collections in the United States. Covering the 1000-year period from 800 B.C. to around A.D. 300, the collection contains Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek decorated pottery, inscriptions, architectural fragments, inscribed Sumerian clay tablets, small artifacts in terracotta and bronze, and Roman copies of Greek art works.

Students and faculty work together to identify relevant residencies or internships to provide valuable work experience, professional networks, further application of skills learned at the university, and a stronger resume. For those planning different career paths, the UM Office of Outreach’s formal Internship Experience program also assists students with internship placements in any career area of interest in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington D.C.

Art majors have exciting opportunities to experience the art and architecture abroad. They can arrange their own study abroad experience through the Office of Study Abroad. Or, they can travel with UM faculty.

One possibility is the course titled Art on Location, where UM faculty can take a course of students to different locations around the US and abroad. For example, in the 2-week 2019 Winter Intersession, art historian Dr. Louise Arrizoli teamed up with a French professor to offer a study of art in Paris, France.