CREATIVE ARTS DEPARTMENT
Chair & Professor: Scott N. Foster MFA
Professor: Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, MFA, SED; Paul Konye, PhD; Rebecca Taylor, JD; Tim Reno, DMA
Associate Professor: Joshua Iddings, PhD; Krysta Dennis, PhD, Germaine Gatewood, MFA
Teaching Professor: Katria Foster MFA
Scene Shop Supervisor and Master Carpenter: Jeff Sullivan
The Siena Creative Arts Department offers an education that unites the visual arts, theater, music, broadcast media, and history through a curriculum designed for students to study, create, and respond to various forms of art and communication. Faculty actively advise students and guide them through specialized tracks within the major based on their interests and ambitions. Graduates of the Creative Arts are well prepared for future personal, academic, or professional work in the arts.
The goal of the Creative Arts Department is to engage students with works of the creative imagination. Courses meet this goal through three approaches:
- By developing the students’ aesthetic appreciation of the arts of the world in which they live.
- By enabling students to understand the arts as reflections of the cultural spirit of various epochs.
- By encouraging the development of students’ own creative potential and skill. The Creative Arts Department offers a Creative Arts Major, a Visual Art and Design Major, a Theatre Major with tracks in Acting, Design, and Management, a Theatre Certificate, a multimedia certificate and minor, a minor in Creative Arts, and a minor in Broadcast and Society.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Dean Christiane Farnan and the School of Liberal Arts Office
Dr. Margaret Madden, Provost, and the Office of Academic Affairs
President Chuck Seifert and the President's Office
Creative Arts Chair Scott Foster and the Creative Arts Faculty
The Siena Print Shop
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