Ours is a visual culture. We are bombarded daily by hundreds of images, most of which we glance at for only a moment. Art History asks us to look at images in a different way: deliberately and with care. Whether a Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo or a Chinese landscape of the Song Dynasty, works of art help us understand how color, line, form and space convey meaning to particular audiences. This dialogue between art and audience and the strategies for making meaning, we can see in contemporary images and design, from advertisements to infographics.
| Art History at Napa Valley College provides students a range of courses, covering earliest image-making to contemporary art practice, photography to graphic design. Surveys include art and architecture of Europe, Asia, and Africa/Oceania/Native North America. Students can pursue either an AA or AA-T (Associate Degree for Transfer) in Art History.
These degrees provide a solid foundation for further study at a four-year institution in multiple art-related fields, such as Visual Culture Studies, Art Conservation, and Arts Management programs. Beyond the art world, the ability to analyze and synthesize information from a range of sources will serve well students pursuing law, business, or any research field.
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RELATED LINKS
ArtSTOR www.artstor.org
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For more informaiton about the Art Histroy program, contact full-time faculty Amanda Badgett at abadgett@napavalley.edu