Opportunities

• Allegheny's Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED) has sponsored Arts and the Environment Community Development Projects, including: The Green Room (a national model for sustainability through the integration of aesthetics, nature, industry and community).
• Student Art Society - Annual activities include unjuried student exhibitions, a Beaux Arts Ball, and field trips.
• Department-sponsored lecture series -Often in conjunction with gallery exhibitions. Recent speakers have included Suzi Gablik (critic and author), Thomas B. Armstrong (director, Andy Warhol Museum), Douglas Crimp (critic, author), and Madeliene Grynsztein, curator at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
• Workshops - Recent workshops have focused on art careers, handbuilt ceramics, papermaking, and non-traditional drawing techniques.
• Field trips - Nearby resources include the Albright-Knox Gallery (Buffalo), the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh), the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Erie Art Museum.
• Meadville Council on the Arts - Hosts nine regional artists' exhibits annually.
• "Signs & Flowers®" - a site-specific public art installation created in collaboration with PennDOT. Recycled road signs were used to create a giant abstract flower garden. Visit ceed.allegheny.edu to view this project.

Experiential Learning

• Internships:
  • Meadville Historical Society (Baldwin-Reynolds House)
  • Erie Art Museum
  • Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh)
  • The French Creek Project, Meadville, PA
  • Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED)
  • Art teaching internship
  • Meadville Council on the Arts
  • The Meadville Tribune
  • Vision Media Group, Meadville, PA
• Gallery and Art Store work-study employment
• Department research and laboratory assistantships
• MCA invites student-curated shows as part of art historical research projects

Graduate School

• About 40% of our majors attend graduate or professional school eventually. About 35% go on directly, with an 80% acceptance rate.
• Recent schools include:
  • University of California at Davis
  • University of Delaware
  • Rutgers University
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • New York Academy of Art
  • University of Arizona
  • Philadelphia College of Art
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Ohio University
  • University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
• The most popular fields of study include: studio art, art history, communications, architecture design, and medical illustration.

Career Data

• About 60% of our majors seek employment directly following graduation.
• The most popular fields for those with bachelor's degrees: teaching, gallery work, museum work, photography, writing, graphic design and publishing. The most popular fields for those with advanced degrees: college/university teaching, museum work, gallery work, elementary or secondary teaching, visual communications, and design.