Supporting the Arts – Creative Matters & Art Makes People Smart
Researchers say that 65% of today’s students will be employed in jobs that have not yet been imagined or exist in the workplace right now. Future employers will be looking for creative problem solvers. Individuals who are able to think critically, solve problems, communicate well, conceptualize, make decisions, learn and reason. The sought-after worker will likely have to be an adaptable learner and an imaginative thinker. Someone who possesses a wide range of higher level thinking skills; likely someone who studied some amount of art in college.
The Department of Art and Design is dedicated to cultivating a learning environment rich in creative opportunity, one that fosters innovative problem solving, critical thinking and interdisciplinary investigation. The Department promotes the value and power of art as a vehicle for individual creative expression, as a tool for examining diverse cultures and time periods, and as a path to a greater appreciation of our world and the human experience overall.
Through experiential learning rooted in an awareness of tradition, our students collaborate with a faculty of teacher-scholars who encourage them to experiment, to cultivate a diversity of thought, and to challenge definitions and assumptions about art, both formally and conceptually. Our graduates are equipped with the skills needed to succeed as culturally engaged professionals and self-reflective agents of change in our rapidly evolving and increasingly globalized world.
Your support helps Art and Design at SIUE achieve our goals. Monies given to the SIUE Foundation help enrich student learning by funding travel, scholarships and special exhibition projects. You can chose to contribute to an Art development fund that fits your giving and philanthropic interests. Your contribution can fund scholarships, specific area needs or go into an Art and Design general fund.
No gift is too small.
Your change can bring change.
