LEARN
Villanova University’s Art Gallery hosts a variety of education-based arts programs for the greater community as well as offering a range of majors and minors within the arts.
Whether you’re a student, faculty member or community member, the art gallery has something for everyone to discover from creative workshops to class visits to open gallery events.
VIRTUAL CATALOGS
Access a curated selection of our gallery’s publications, offering insight into past exhibitions, artist profiles and special collections. Our goal is to provide a rich digital experience that mirrors the depth and diversity of our gallery’s offerings.
We are continually working to expand this resource by digitizing additional publications. We invite you to explore the catalogs and return regularly as we update and enhance the collection.
MINOR IN STUDIO ART
Villanova’s Studio Art minor serves both mind and heart. The minor takes an integrative, interdisciplinary approach in the reciprocal interactions between scholarship and art, theory and practice.
This minor allows students to continuously develop as artists, embodying a multi-disciplinary approach that includes research and creativity, all of which are integrated through experience and ingenuity.
For more information on the Studio Art minor, please contact Peter Hilliard.
ART HISTORY
The Art History Program provides students with the tools to understand, interpret and evaluate art from the perspectives of different societies across time. We encourage students to approach art as a dynamic force that has shaped, and continues to shape, the complex interaction of social, political and economic processes both in the past and in the present day.
Major in Art History
The Art History major is an interdisciplinary program that exposes students to works of art and other visual productions, both past and present, and helps to prepare students for future challenges.
Minor in Art History
The Art History minor is a dynamic program inviting students to engage with artistic expression from various historical periods and geographical contexts, enriching their understanding of the visual arts.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women's Leadership presents:
Living History: Women and Public Art in Philadelphia
Public Conversation with artists Maia Chao, Karyn Olivier and Michelle Angela Ortis moderated by curator Katie Lee
March 27, 2025 from 5:30 - 7pm
Villanova Room, Connelly Center
Free, open to the public, and ACS approved. All are welcome.
Lead sponsor: Tigress Financial Partners. Co-sponsored by the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, the Department of History, the Art History Program, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Villanova University Art Gallery.
Gallery talk by Dr. Patricia Likos Ricci from Elizabethtown College
Friday, April 11, 5 - 6:30 pm
VU Art Gallery, Connelly Center, 2nd Floor