Find your program at the UW-Madison Art Department

Expand your perspective and connect with your classmates, your community, and the world around you!
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Find your program at the UW-Madison Art Department

Expand your perspective and connect with your classmates, your community, and the world around you!
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMGRADUATE PROGRAM

The University of Wisconsin-Madison occupies ancestral Ho-Chunk land, called Teejop (day-JOPE) since time immemorial. In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were forced to cede this territory. Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk from Wisconsin.

This history of colonization informs our shared future of collaboration and innovation. We respect the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation, along with the eleven other First Nations of Wisconsin.

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Summer 2025 enrollment opens March 31st!

Plan your Summer Now!

Summer 2025 classes at UW Art begin May 19th!

We offer in-demand online courses and onsite courses, many open to beginners, non-art majors, and special students. Earn credits to graduate on time or early, wherever you happen to be!

Summer 2025

ONLINE CLASSES

Art 100 Introduction to Art 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 20 | May 19 – Jul 13 | Jun 16 – Aug 10

Art 102 Two-Dimensional Design 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 20

Art 107 Introduction to Digital Forms 3 Credits
May 19 – Jun 22

Art 108 Foundations of Contemporary Art 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 20

Art 176 Digital Photography for Non-Art Majors 4 Credits
Jun 23 – Jul 20

Art 208 Current Directions in Art 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 20

Art 236 Writing in and About the Arts 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 6

Art 307 Making Comics 1 4 credits
Jun 23 – Aug 3

Art 346 Basic Graphic Design 4 Credits
Jun 16 – Aug 10

Art 428 Digital Imaging Studio 4 Credits
May 19 – Jun 15

Art 429 3D Digital Studio I 4 Credits
Jun 23 – Jul 20

Art 438 History of Graphic Design Typography 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 20

Art 507 Making Comics 2 4 credits
Jun 23 – Aug 3

Art 575 User Experience for Graphic Design 3 Credits
May 27 – Jul 6

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Events

Spring 2025 Visiting Artist Colloquium

Come visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department!

Tours are now available by appointment, view our upcoming Art Department events for prospective students at Visit Bucky: apps.admissions.wisc.edu/visitbucky/

Carefully read the event information and COVID-19 Safety Protocols and Campus Visitor Agreement before your visit.

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Graduate art student Sarah Deppe works on a piece in her studio space in the Art Lofts building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lynda Barry's Art 448 Making Comics 1 students pose with their final project comics on the last day of class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students critique each others' projects in the Digital Media class taught by Stephen Hilyard the Mosse Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students enjoy a tea party using handcrafted tea sets created in ceramics class at the Art Lofts Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
From back to front of canoe, Wayne Valliere, a Native American artist-in-residence with the Department of Art and member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and Tim Frandy, an outreach specialist at the UW Collaborative Center for Health Equity, take a traditional Ojibwe birchbark canoe for an inaugural paddle in Lake Mendota near the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The canoe is known in Ojibwe language as wiigwaasi-jiimaan, and was handmade by Valliere as part of his residency.
A student examines the writing on a painting at the First Year Grad Show, Witnesses, on display at the Art Lofts Gallery.
Glass artist Yuki Wakamiya works with an assortment of tools and blown air to shape a piece of molten glass during a demonstration at the Glass Lab open house at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Arts at UW

Did you know?

The UW-Madison Art Department is:

  • #1 in Printmaking
  • Ranked among the top 15 Fine Arts MFA programs
  • Founded the 1st collegiate Glass program in the U.S.
  • 1 of only 5 universities in the nation with a Neon program

Ranking Source: U.S. News & World Report

The University of Wisconsin-Madison ART DEPARTMENT is committed to teaching art in the context of a major research university and a vibrant intellectual community. Offering the following degrees: B.S., B.F.A., M.A., & M.F.A. in Studio Art, B.S. in Art Education, Certificate in Art Studio, and Certificate in Graphic Design.

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