• Allegheny’s Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED) sponsors arts and the environment community development art projects. Each project provides paid summer internships for four to six students annually.
• Student Art Society holds annual activities including unjuried student exhibitions, a Beaux Arts Ball, and field trips.
• Department-sponsored lecture series, often in conjunction with gallery exhibitions: recent speakers have included artists Christo & Jeanne-Claude; Thomas B. Armstrong, director of the Andy Warhol Museum; and Madeleine Grynsztejn, curator at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
• Workshops: Recent workshops have focused on art careers, handbuilt ceramics, papermaking, and non-traditional drawing techniques.
• Field trips: Nearby resources include the Albright-Knox Gallery (Buffalo), the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh), the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Erie Art Museum.
• Meadville Council on the Arts hosts nine regional artists’ exhibits annually.
• “Signs & Flowers,” a site-specific public art installation created in collaboration with PennDOT.
• Art education program with the University of Pittsburgh
• 3/2 arts management program with Carnegie Mellon’s John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Experiential Learning

• Internships
  • Art teaching internship: Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh)
  • Center for Economic and Environmental Development (CEED)
  • Cleveland School of the Arts
  • Erie Art Museum
  • Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum
  • Meadville Council on the Arts (MCA)
  • Meadville Historical Society (Baldwin-Reynolds House)
  • The French Creek Project, Meadville, Pa.
  • The Meadville Tribune
  • Vision Media Group, Meadville, Pa.

• Gallery and art store work-study employment
• Department research and laboratory assistantships
• MCA invites student-curated shows as part of art historical research projects