The art education track provides preparation to future art teachers so they may go on to have successful teaching careers and a lifelong engagement with art.
A strong background in visual arts is necessary for teachers of art to help their students make, study, interpret and evaluate works of art. In the Art & Design Program, students explore foundations of art through courses that encourage learning to see the structure of visual art and how to develop ideas in art making. Students learn about and engage in a variety of studio processes including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, new media and spatial arts.
Students who choose this track work with faculty across multiple art and design disciplines. Here is a link to the full-time faculty in art and design.
The mission of the art education track at NKU is to train art educators to be committed to teaching and to their students and to offer them a depth and breadth of knowledge about art. The art education courses equip students with current methods in curriculum development, and instruction and assessment to provide many teaching opportunities in area schools.
Our program supports and affirms the idea that teachers must be well versed in the history an practice of visual art and engage in learning new content, skills, theories, art forms and technology throughout their professional lives.
