he School of Art offers a faculty of dedicated teachers that are student-oriented and come from a wide range of disciplines as well as geography. All have terminal degrees in their field and are experts at what they do as working artists. Our instructors are graduates of such schools as Alfred University, The University of Delaware, The University of Georgia, The University of Illinois, The University of Iowa, Long Beach State University, Louisiana Tech University, Memphis College of Art, Ole Miss, The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Washington, Kansas Sate University, The University of Indiana and New Mexico State University.

With this diversity of influences comes a diversity of ideas, styles, and individual philosophies, all encouraged so that we can provide our students with an open dialogue concerning their growing awareness of their view of the world. We support a philosophy of tolerance of new ideas tempered by the development of justifications of the art making process. We promote understanding art at its roots while progressively exploring the nature of what art can be.