Our Mission

Ryan Stromfors, Dr. Elizabeth Moran, Rebecca Howard, Laura Hemleben Our students have the opportunity to participate in PaidieaConferences yearly. Paidiea is sponsored by the CNU Undergraduate Research Council  which is committed to enhancing and promoting student research, and highlighting successful student-faculty research and scholarship.

The Department of Fine Art and Art History strives to promote an appreciation and understanding of the visual arts at Christopher Newport University. Through excellence in teaching and learning, we offer programs in studio art, art history and art education. We seek to build a strong foundation in the visual arts by developing skills through hands-on experience, the encouragement of conceptual thinking and engagement in rigorous scholarship, all with the goal of preparing students for graduate study and professional careers in the arts.

Studio Art Graduate Bill Kaoudis student teaching while working toward his Masters in Art Education

We Seek to Inspire Artists and Thinkers

Christopher Newport University is located between two of the country's best museums - the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond.  In addition, Newport News prides itself as an active, artistic community, rich with art centers and working artists’ studios. Our department is housed in the new Ferguson Center for the Arts designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The Ferguson Center is a cultural magnet for world-class performing artists and is the home of the Department of  Fine Art and Art History’s Falk Gallery of Art, The Ferguson Hall Gallery of Art and The Alexick Student Gallery offering teachers, students, and the Hampton Roads community a variety of exhibitions from student and regional artists to traveling exhibitions. The intimate Student Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of work by ArtCNU students.

ArtCNU STUDY ABROAD

FNAR 204 The Artistic Process

“The Artistic Process” provides a study-abroad experience at an

undergraduate, lower-level which surveys works of art and

architecture in the light of influences which have helped shape art.

The course aims to examine the close relationship between art and its

cultural contexts by studying works of art in their original locations.

The artistic process will be inspected from the vantage point of the working

artist and what has most influenced the artist’s choices.

Depending on where in the world this course is taught, the emphasis of

FNAR 204 addresses specific aspects of the artist’s culture: history,

politics, religion, science and technology, while investigating more

subjective influences.

The Artistic Process 2008

Italy and Prague

ArtCNU Study Abroad 2008 in Italy

Ten-days, including the cities of Rome, Florence, Venice, Padua,

Siena and San Giginano

Florence

The Pantheon, Rome

From January 3 - 16, 2009 Dr. Elizabeth Morán

will be conducting a CNU J-Term in Mexico.

The itinerary will include visits to the Templo Mayor Museum, the

Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Museo de Arte Moderno,

Museo Mural Diego Rivera,Museo del Carmen and Museo 

Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul).Students will also visit Xochimilco,

Tula and Teotihuacan.

Teotihuacan

Taxco

Museo Frida Kahlo Casa Azul