Art
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How does a Christian artist cultivate and shape culture?
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How does a Christian artist cultivate and shape culture?
Today's culture is filled with images and God has saturated our world with meaning. Through Redeemer's Art program, students are given the opportunity to use the arts to open their eyes, cultivate and seek God's calling and intended purpose for creation.
Art is a Bachelor of Arts degree program. It is offered as a major and as a minor.
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Right from the start, small class sizes allow for deep relationship building with peers and mentoring by faculty. It is a powerful context where students have space to discover their own voice and dare to accept God's challenge to be a culture-maker and shaper.
Your art classes are focused on the studio. Studio work integrates mind, body, and spirit in a unique way, balancing the study of technique (perspective, colour, materials) and the exploration of concepts and themes. You will approach the history of art, contemporary art practice and theory, with seriousness, developing strategies for navigating the difficult intersection of religious belief and contemporary art.
The Core Curriculum is a set of 10 courses that every student takes. The courses are woven through every major and get you to think deeply and broadly about what you’re studying. Think about it this way…
The studio is where students' faith and vision come together, leaning to express their authentic voice through the work of their own hands. Students push their skills through courses like Figure Drawing, think deeply in courses like Faith and Art, and explore the rich history of art and culture in courses like Modern Art History.
In their final semester, art students prepare a Senior Exhibition where they set their own questions, respond to their deep passions, and create a cohesive body of work for public display in Redeemer's Art Gallery.
There is a museum/gallery trip each semester where students are encouraged to engage with challenging contemporary work to stretch, think and grow. Every other year, a trip to New York City is an opportunity for students to encounter the things they've studied face-to-face and be inspired by the work of others.
is a museum collections manager who specializes in collecting and interpreting East Asian art.
founded RE-create, an open arts studio for street-involved youth in downtown Hamilton, Ont. She is a registered art therapist with the Shalem Mental Health Network, of which RE-create is one of its outreach programs.
An art alumnus shares his path to becoming an art appraiser and how he brings his faith to work.
Art professor Phil Irish sails the north as part of The Arctic Circle residency program.
A fourth-year art major is taking opportunities God places on her path to learn more about herself and discern his calling for her life.
The annual Kuyper Conference, founded in 1998 at Princeton Theological Seminary, acknowledges the stream of Calvinist thought represented by Abraham Kuyper, Dutch...
Past and present Redeemer art faculty discuss the necessity of fostering a creative environment on campus.
New public art on campus will draw the viewer in as the missing element.
Associate professor of art Phil Irish is participating in a reimagined Lenten tradition.
Redeemer’s faculty and students explore issues of race and representation through the curriculum this term.
Four graduating art students reflect on their senior exhibitions and how their passions were deepened by studying inside and outside their majors.
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