To cultivate the creation and appreciation of visual art, we foster creative confidence, critical thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and cultural responsibility. We follow these principles to accomplish our mission:
Visual Literacy - We encourage the development of strong visual literacy among students of the visual arts. We support the study of history, culture, technology and trends to this end.
Professional Excellence - In preparing visual art students for careers in a broad market, we support and expect excellence and professionalism.
Creative Diversity - While teaching techniques, styles, and practices is an important part of our programs, we support a diversity of ideas and individual expressions among students in their creative work. We promote artistic freedom and seek to preserve cultural identity through creative production, exhibition and historical research.
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Steven Bule, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Art History
Shortly after joining the UVU faculty in 1999, Steve Bule introduced new art history courses to the curriculum and later helped create the Art History minor and major degrees. He served in a number of capacities, including Department Chair (2007–2010), Associate Dean of the School of the Arts (2010–2014), and chair of the International Study Abroad Advisory Committee (2005–2017). He’s most proud of the seventeen study abroad programs he directed to Italy, beginning in 2002. Over three hundred students participated in those programs studying art and architecture history. Over a teaching career spanning thirty-nine years, he advised a number of graduate students, honors students, and integrated studies students. Dr. Bule’s publications and presentations have focused on Italian Renaissance sculpture, Matteo Civitali, the art of Lucca, and early LDS profile painter, Sutcliffe Maudsley. An international symposium on Italian sculpture he organized in 1988 has met every four years at a number of locations around the country.
Bob DeWitt, MFA
Professor Emeritus, Art History
Bob received his Bachelor?s degree in Commercial Art from Brigham Young University in 1972, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He then moved to Mesa, Arizona and worked in various Commercial Art studios doing everything from illustration to brochure, billboard, product, architectural rendering, and logo design before returning to BYU in 1979 to earn an MFA in Painting and Drawing. He then freelanced in illustration and worked three years in the animation industry until he was hired as a founding member of the Utah Technical College (?the Tech?) art program in 1986, teaching in all disciplines. Over thirty-four years later he is the only remaining member of the original faculty. While teaching full time, he returned to BYU in 2000 and earned a Master?s Degree in Art History, specializing in ancient cultures. Meanwhile, he taught himself 3D computer modeling, primarily to re-create ancient architecture for his Art History lectures. His Master?s Thesis explored the various iterations of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, recreating its three major identities. He now teaches Art History and 3-D Computer Modeling at UVU and is still passionate about using 3D software to recreate all kinds of things, but especially ancient architecture.
Professional associations provide information, conferences, workshops, competition and presentation opportunities, and networking support for artists, designers, art historians, and art educators pursuing professional careers. Many of these associations offer student memberships at discounted rates. Here is a sampling of national and Utah associations related to Art & Design.
