Savannah College of Art and Design Art History Program

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Undergraduate Studies
Undergraduate students learn to identify key works of art and interpret art in a broad historical context, and gain advanced knowledge of relevant art historical discourse and theoretical methods in a specialized period or cultural context.

Graduate Studies
Art history graduate students advance their skills in critical thinking and analysis while specializing in a particular area of academic interest. Graduate degree students gain a broad knowledge of art as well as the ability to analyze and interpret works in areas of specialization.

Galleries and Exhibitions
Galleries in Savannah, Atlanta and Lacoste provide changing exhibitions of work by well-known and emerging artists.

SCAD Museum of Art

The Earle W. Newton Center for British and American Art features paintings, drawings and prints from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in the
Plans for the future Walter O. Evans Center for African-American Studies include an initial donation of 70 works surveying a range of African-American art from the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence.

Biennial Art History Symposium
The 2008 symposium, "New Museum, New Museology," explores the latest trends in museum studies.

Employers converge for SCAD Career Fair
04/21/08

05/05/08	--	André Leon Talley to address SCAD graduates: Vogue’s editor-at-large will speak at Savannah and Atlanta ceremonies
04/29/08	--	SCAD-Atlanta’s ACA Library receives grant from the Halle Foundation
04/25/08	--	Nearly 48 percent of employers at SCAD Job and Internship Fair plan to offer positions to students
04/10/08	--	SCAD hosts Innovative Teaching and Learning Symposium
03/31/08	--	Former Metropolitan Museum of Art director to speak, sign books at SCAD

Careers

• art book publisher
• art critic
• curator
• art conservator
• educator
• museum development officer
• museum registrar
• historic site supervisor
• museum exhibition designer
• fine art librarian
• arts administrator
• art dealer

• art consultant
• art historian
• auction house administrator
• corporate art curator
• art appraiser
• artist representative
• collections manager
• consultant to museums/galleries/dealers/collectors
• freelance writer/art critic
• preservationist

SCAD, Savannah, Art History, Art history students browse collections in the conference room at the SCAD Museum of Art

Some Employers of SCAD Alumni
• Addison Wesley Longman
• Allianceart.com
• Art Institute of Houston
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
• Conrad Weiser School District
• Georgia Historical Society
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• New Orleans Museum of Art
• Ray Ellis Gallery
• Sotheby’s Telfair Museum of Art
• The Manassas Museum System
• Winthrop University