Department of Art and Design

The University of Dayton has many spaces for you to show off your work, including the Roger Glass Center for the Arts with its theaters and gallery.

Student art is also featured in the Orpheus Art & Literary Magazine, one of the student-produced publications at UD.

Tailor your degree with a minor or double major. In fact, a double major is recommended with the B.A. Students can double major or minor with the B.F.A but will need to work closely with an advisor in scheduling classes.

Our faculty members are committed to offering individualized instruction, academic advising and professional mentoring. Devoted solely to undergraduate learning, we offer small faculty-to-student ratios that ensure high-quality contact with instructors. Our instructors are leaders in their professional fields, all committed to excellence in research and in teaching.

Our faculty understand the value of experiential learning. As such, they strive to give students many opportunities to learn from doing, through a variety of departmental and interdisciplinary programs and projects.

Students develop research in state-of-the art studios that include expansive technologies for graphic design, printmaking, ceramics, wood and metal installation work, painting, illustration and digital and darkroom photography.

Scholarships offered by the Department of Art and Design are awarded to first-year, full-time students who enroll in a four-year program in any of the major program areas within the department.