Art & Design Education
Unlock exciting career opportunities within the art world as an innovative and dynamic teaching artist with a bachelor’s degree in art and design education from Adelphi University on Long Island.
Why Earn Your BFA in Art and Design Education?
With a bachelor’s degree in art and design education, you will prepare for a career teaching art for diverse learners across a range of educational settings. You will learn a range of ways to make, present, interpret and teach art, as well as how to collaborate across a variety of disciplines and communities in the process. Graduate ready to take on a number of creative endeavors in the arts, including teaching grades Pre-K through 12 at a public or private school, lead museum education programs or run a community-based arts program.
Specifically, this degree will help you inspire children and adults alike as a teaching artist, creative arts therapist, arts activist or museum educator. Fulfill your creative passions as a graphic designer or photographer, or make an impact as an exhibition coordinator or nonprofit arts administrator.
Why Major in Art and Design Education at Adelphi on Long Island?
- Build your creative skills with courses in studio art, art history and contemporary art and be eligible for New York state certification in visual arts education upon graduation.
- Shape your degree to match your unique passions—from art therapy to animation or museum education—as you learn to design and facilitate arts-based programs.
- Enhance your résumé by gaining hands-on experience in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math), a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning.
Adelphi students working on a project
Artists at Work: Mural for the Multicultural Center
When art education major Gianna Valente got the chance to design a mural for the Multicultural Center, she wanted to show the diversity she sees at Adelphi. The mural, representing student life on campus, was painted with the help of classmates in her mural class and adjunct faculty Cara Lynch ’12, MS ’15.
Art and Design Education Minors
Customize your studies to suit your interests by incorporating one of six minor options with courses ranging from digital photography, ceramics, painting and more.
Art and Design Education Minor
The minor in Art and Design Education introduces students to contemporary issues and methodologies in the field of art and design education including cutting-edge technologies and new forms of cultural expression, across a range of settings including preK-12 schools, community arts programs, and museums.
Art History Minor
The minor in Art History gives an Adelphi student the opportunity to study art from passionate scholars who care deeply about research and teaching. Our art faculty regularly takes advantage of the University’s proximity to New York City by holding classes in museums and art galleries, inviting guest scholars and curators to campus, and encouraging students to pursue internships in the city.
Art Therapy Minor
The art therapy minor is useful for students majoring in either art or psychology who are interested in pursuing graduate training in art therapy (a requirement for both licensure and practice). The minor conforms to the recommendations made by the American Art Therapy Association (AATA).
Graphic Design Minor
The graphic design minor will introduce students to both traditional studio skills and cutting edge digital image making, providing them with the necessary foundation for contemporary visual communication.
Studio Art Minor
The studio art minor will equip students with the skills and confidence needed to build their own studio art practice while simultaneously providing them with the tools needed to pursue work in commercial art and design.
Video Game Design Minor
The video game design minor introduces students to the components of game design from the perspectives of Art, Film, and Computer Science. The program culminates in a course in which students collaborate in creative teams to develop and produce an original video game.
My professors have helped me prove to myself that this is the career I’m meant to have. They’ve given me so many confidence-boosting opportunities to teach outside of school that have shown me I’m capable of pursuing this path.
Rebecca Yackel
Rebecca Yackel ‘21, BFA in Art and Design Education
Galleries and Exhibitions
We are proud of the work of our art students and faculty:
Exceptional Hands-On Learning
At Adelphi, we believe hands-on experience is key to setting our art and design students up for future career success. Thanks to our strong partnerships with schools and organizations on Long Island and beyond—as well as our robust alumni network—our art and design education students graduate with more than 500 internship hours, with opportunities that include teaching in schools, museums and at after-school programs. Students also have the opportunity to exhibit their work in one of four University galleries.
- Alice Brown Early Learning Center
- Arts and Culture Global Solidarity Network World Economic Forum
- Long Island Children’s Museum
- Nassau County Museum of Art
- National Art Education Association
Program Info
Application Requirements
To apply for the art and design education program, submit the appropriate application requirements along with a portfolio of recent work.
Transformative Educational Opportunities
All undergraduate students have the opportunity to apply for the following programs to expand their educational landscape:
- The Honors College – fostering intellectual perspectives and critical skills
- Levermore Global Scholars – preparing students to become global thinkers and leaders
- Study Abroad – providing opportunities to experience another culture and see the world from a new perspective
Art Studios
Art History Lecture Hall
Senior Art Studios
Sculpture and Ceramics
Printmaking Studio
Graphic Design and Digital Production
Painting and Drawing
Art History Lecture Hall
With small class sizes, the art history lecture hall located in Blodgett Hall offers one-on-one attention from our experienced art professors. 2 Photos-
Blodgett Hall art history lecture hall.
-
Blodgett Hall art history lecture hall.
Senior Art Studios
Individual studio space for BFA Studio and Art and Design Education students is available in their senior year. 2 Photos-
A student working in their own personal studio space.
-
Located in Blodgett Hall, each senior studio is filled with natural light from skylights overhead.
Sculpture and Ceramics
The 5,000 square foot sculpture studio and adjacent yard house a small foundry for lost wax and sand casting, wood fabrication equipment, and a sheet metal shop with welding machines. 3 Photos-
The clay area which recycles and pugs its own clay includes wheels, electric kilns, gas kilns, an anagama kiln, a slab roller, and an extruder for ceramics. We also have installation space for the less object-oriented disciplines of installation and performance art.
-
A student working in the sculpture studio in the Klapper Center for Fine Arts.
-
A student working on a 3D sculpture in the Klapper Center for Fine Arts.
Printmaking Studio
The 1400-square-foot printmaking area is well equipped to support a number of different printmaking techniques including all varieties of intaglio, solarplate, monotype, relief, and screenprint printmaking. 3 Photos-
Two Adelphi art students working with screenprints in the studio.
-
Three large Brand presses in the printmaking studio further service student work, in addition to a mini, in-house digital lab that includes a large-format archival color inkjet printer.
-
The printmaking studio in the Klapper Center for Fine Arts offers ample natural light through skylights.
Graphic Design and Digital Production
We have 2 digital labs that include 40 Mac Pro computers equipped with a full suite of art and design software, 2 large format archival color inkjet printers, 4 color printers, 6 scanners, and 20 Wacom tablets. 4 Photos-
A design student working in the Blodgett Hall digital lab.
-
The design space features individual workstations for students to work on advertising, branding, and package design projects.
-
Design students will take classes in the studio to explore advertising design, web design, and learn computer graphics applications.
-
Painting and Drawing
The 3 painting and drawing studios are well lit and feature skylights, easels, and designated storage areas for canvas and 2D work. 8 Photos-
Associate professor Jennifer Maloney mentors a student in the painting studio.
-
Designed to inspire artistic expression, each of the two 700-square-foot painting studios in the Herbert J. Klapper Center for Fine Arts features skylights and provides painting racks, easels and taborets.
-
An Adelphi student concentrates on the work in front of her.
-
Art students working diligently at easels.
-
The Blodgett Hall drawing studios offer ample natural light and space to create.
-
Art students drawing during class.
-
Art students working in charcoal in the Blodgett Hall studios.
-
The drawing studios provide students with a creative space to work and are adjacent to storage racks and locker space to house supplies.
Awards & Recognition
Program Director and Department Chair
-
Contact-
516.877.4459
-
Blodgett Hall 301
-
Contact
-
516.877.4459
-
Blodgett Hall 111E