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The art and graphic design programs provide the opportunity for close collaboration with a talented community of working artists, as well as extensive access to newly-remodeled facilities for the study of traditional and contemporary art forms including painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. 

Social Science and Art Hall

The Social Science and Art Hallopened in 2008. The main floor features a 1,550-square-foot art gallery; a printmaking studio with four intaglio and lithograph presses; and spacious drawing and painting studios. All art studios have state-of-the-art ventilation and track lighting. Senior art majors are given their own studio space. Art shows bring artists, known locally and nationally, to campus, providing the opportunity to discuss the artwork with its creators. The Art program has hopes that the gallery, which hosts 12 shows a year, will become one of northwest Iowa's major art galleries.

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Center for Sculpture and Ceramics

The Center for Sculpture and Ceramics opened in 2008. The building houses a large woodshop equipped with a full line of modern woodworking machinery, as well as a foundry and metalworking studio. The foundry is equipped to cast bronze and aluminum. The metalworking area contains MIG, TIG, ARC, and oxy-acetylene welders. The ceramics studio features numerous electric Brent potter's wheels, a large glazing area, hand-building area and a kiln room. The center also contains a classroom for the study of three-dimensional objects and is set up for mold-making, modeling and digital image projection.

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University Art Collection

The University's art collection, on display across campus, includes works by Auguste Rodin, Grant Wood, Red Grooms, Ed Paschke, Jun Kaneko, John Buck, Claes Oldenburg and Kiki Smith, as well as one of the largest Steve Joy collections in the world. Copies of student artwork from the 1960s to today are also on file.

Student Organizations

Student organizations Untitled 11 and the Graphic Design Club provide co-curricular support for artistic endeavors through trips, guest artists, art shows, sales and the facilitation of active communication with other art students.

Faces

Faces - the campus student-operated literary and art magazine - is published each spring. The student staff solicits original creative material from the BVU community, makes editorial decisions, and oversees design and production. Submissions include poetry, short stories, essays, photographs, paintings and other visual works.