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Art & Design
Why Art & Design?

A personal relationship between faculty and students as well as camaraderie with classmates creates a close-knit and supportive environment in the Art & Design department. Students are given a solid foundation in traditional techniques and in art history, but are then encouraged to explore their own creative expressions. Professors who practice in their fields serve as role models for aspiring artists. Visiting artists underscore the goals of the program by offering alternative viewpoints in the contemporary arts.

What about facilities?

The Lamar Dodd Art Center offers excellent space for education and expression. The newly renovated three-story, 32,000 square-foot facility named in honor of celebrated Georgia artist Lamar Dodd, provides large, open classrooms and private studios, a state-of the-art ceramics and sculpture area, and a well-equipped shop for woodworking and welding. The photography area contains both a traditional darkroom, as well as both Mac computers and printers for digital imaging. The Graphic Design program enjoys a fully updated Mac lab with current software. The printmaking studio has the capacity for intaglio, lithography and relief printmaking. Art history lectures are held in a tiered lecture room using LED projection.

Art students have access to a permanent collection of over 2,500 works in the college museum, including works by Rembrandt, Picasso and Rauschenberg. LaGrange College students, more-over, are exposed to an exciting series of rotating exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art.

Meet Art & Design majors:

Kathryn Schroeder

Art has been a part of Kathryn Schroeder’s life for as long as she can remember.

“My mom was an art history major,” says the senior from Grayson, Ga. “Since I was young, my parents would take me to museums and fostered my love of art. When I was in the fourth grade we visited the Art Institute of Chicago, and I told my parents that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”

Trevor Jones

For Trevor Jones, one of the best things about attending LaGrange College is faculty members “who encourage him to dream BIG.”

After doing some research on religion departments at several private colleges, Trevor, a junior from Woodstock, Ga., enrolled at LaGrange. His original intent was to pursue a leadership position within the church. But, his career plans changed when faculty members challenged him to combine his religion major with his passion for art and design.