Our programs develop your creative and expressive abilities and apply them to careers in fine and commercial art, museums, and education.
Our graduate programs in studio art foster individual vision and innovation across a wide range of media and processes, while our MA in Art, Art Education Track is designed specifically for working art educators.
Prospective students, transfer students, or students who wish to change to an art studio or art education major can submit their portfolio anytime.
Follow this link for details about registering for a portfolio review and portfolio guidelines.
The portfolio review process is used to select students for scholarships. Acceptance and scholarship decisions are made on a rolling basis, usually within one to two weeks of the portfolio review.
IUP is home to several art venues, including Kipp Gallery, Miller Gallery, and the University Museum, which display the work of faculty, students, and other international, national, and regional artists, in thought-provoking exhibits throughout the year.
IUP is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
Art and Design professors Sharon Massey and Sean Derry were invited to give a presentation about Local X Change, a new curriculum they have developed that combines digital fabrication instruction with civic engagement, at STEAM and the Future of Education: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the Integration of the 4 Cultures Domain in Porto, Portugal, in September 2022.
Students in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Art and Design’s three-dimensional art and design course used IUP’s STEAMshop—IUP’s digital fabrication makerspace—to light the way in IUP’s Sprowls Hall. Students in Sharon Massey and Sean Derry’s Art 113 course used Rhino 3D and Fusion Slicer software to design hanging light fixtures for the building, which is home to IUP’s Department of Art and Design.
Under the direction of professor Ivan Fortushniak, Advanced Painting students in spring 2021 created a 45-foot mural for S&T Bank Arena in White Township. The mural shows a selection of the sports played at the complex.
Art and Design alumna Morg Cunningham was recently chosen to illustrate the cover of the Pittsburgh City Paper magazine.
“Touch in the Time of Corona,” an artwork by Associate Professor Sharon Massey, was recently acquired by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Massey was inspired to make this piece in summer 2020 after attending a small funeral for her husband’s grandmother at the height of the first wave of the pandemic.
