Envision a creative future
Expand your creative capabilities
Engage with creative individuals
Evolve as a creative artist
Discover your potential and prepare for your creative future
at Youngstown State University.
YSU’s Department of Art in the College of Creative Arts and Communication recognizes that each student is unique with individual talents, goals

SPRING 2024
Mon, Feb 3 – Crystal Miller
McDonough Museum of Art, lecture hall, 5:30pm
[ Black History Month Lecture ]
Wed, Feb 5 – Julia Betts
event link: https://ysu.webex.com/ysu/j.php?MTID=md291e65e5eb62ce140908ebf6529abc0
password: stefanieposavec
[ Beecher Art and Technology Lecture Series ]
Wed, Feb 12 – Abby Cipar
event link: https://ysu.webex.com/ysu/j.php?MTID=ma65663a96bbf62abb6b49e8f347afaf6
password: bliseorr
Mon, Feb 19 – Shirley Wu
event link: https://ysu.webex.com/ysu/j.php?MTID=mf774c57e89d5187148961663786ea2aa
password: shirleywu
McDonough Museum of Art, lecture hall, 5:30pm
Tue, March 18 – Daniel Echeverri: Best of Both Worlds: A Chat on Design Research and Design Practice
virtual, 11am
event link: https://ysu.webex.com/ysu/j.php?MTID=m3c98dddbfff6a9967011a18657e833aa
[ Department of Art Lecture Series ]
BECAUSE WE FOCUS ON YOU
Education in the arts is paradoxical. Art making and the study of art require skills training as well as perceptual awareness. Participation in the process is the primary means of education. Students and faculty alike are immersed in the quest for knowledge and creative self-realization, whether it is in the form of computer graphics, printmaking or the study of art from the past.
The Higher Learning Commission accredits Youngstown State University in an accreditation that includes all undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), an organization whose membership includes 250 schools out of approximately 2,000 art departments nationally, accredits the Department of Art.