Art Education and Art History
The Department of Art Education and Art History in the College of Visual Arts and Design is committed to enhancing students’ understanding of contemporary and past visual art forms. Within and between its comprehensive degree-granting programs, the department provides students and faculty with the opportunity to examine global artistic production, relevant technologies, critical methods, learning theories and innovative approaches to pedagogy and knowledge acquisition.
The Department of Art Education and Art History offers the following degrees in Art Education:
- Art Education: Visual Art Studies (B.F.A., M.A., Ph.D.)
- Art History (B.A. and M.A.)
- Interdisciplinary Art & Design Studies [Open Track or Arts Management Track] (B.A.)
The department also offers a graduate academic certificate in Art Museum Education.
See the Avista Medieval Graduate Symposium website.
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Contact Us
Department of Art Education and Art History
College of Visual Arts and Design
1155 Union Circle #305100
Denton, TX 76203
aeah@unt.edu
940-565-4777
Department head: Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Student accomplishments
Center for Creative Connections features David Herman, UNT Art Education Ph.D student
David Herman, Jr., UNT Art Education Ph. D student, featured as part of the Dallas Museum of Art's Center for Creative Connections Visiting Artists program. David is a conceptual artist, educator, and co-founder of Preservation LINK, an arts education non-profit. He is currently a Ph.D. Visual Culture Studies student at the University of North Texas and Artist-in-Residence at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Alumni accomplishments
Bevin Butler
Art History BA (2010) and MA (2012) alumna Bevin Butler presenting her paper "Mutilated Martyrs: Torture, Misogyny, and "Becoming Male" in an Antepedium of Virgin Martyrs" at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.
