Enrichment Programs
For more than thirty years, Messiah College has worked with Temple University at our Philadelphia Campus to offer enhanced studies. Participants are able to take advantage of the resources and faculty of a large urban university while living and working in a supportive and close-knit Christian residential community made up of Messiah students, faculty, and administrators. Our campus is located across the street from the main Temple campus.

Study in Philadelphia offers unique cultural and educational opportunities. Art education majors complete their programs with the junior and senior year in Philadelphia. Art history majors take advanced work for two to four semesters with the specialists in Temple's art history department and may take advantage of Temple's program in Rome.

Studio art majors are not required to study elsewhere, but many of our majors pursue enrichment at the Philadelphia Campus, another college in the Christian Consortium, programs sponsored by Brethren Colleges Abroad, or other approved programs in the United States and world-wide. Especially popular with our majors are the Gordon College Semester in Orvieto, Italy, where students work with eminent artists and art historians, and the program of the Brethren Colleges Abroad in Athens, Greece, where they may study ancient art and culture at its source.

Our students are actively engaged in experiential learning. Opportunities range from working one-on-one with faculty to internships with businesses and institutions. Scholar Interns have interaction with faculty as they work together on projects such as art historical research, professional journals, artists@ books, sculpture, and public installations. Students may earn and learn through work study positions that include gallery assistants, studio proctors in sculpture, ceramics and computer graphics labs, and slide library assistants. Our new Design Studio Services gives students course credit as they design work for a variety of non-profit organizations. Projects have ranged from the widely-used Genesis logo for the Messiah College solar car, the department viewbook, to work for the Brethren Ministries in Harrisburg. Various departmental internships also offer students discipline-related work/learning experiences in graphics firms, galleries, museums, and with local craftsmen.

Experiential Learning
Opportunities range from working one-on-one with faculty to internships with businesses and institutions. Scholar Interns have interaction with faculty as they work together on projects such as art historical research, professional journals, artists' books, sculpture, and public installations. Students may earn and learn through work-study positions that include gallery assistants, studio proctors in sculpture, computer graphics labs, and slide library assistants. Our new Design Studio Services gives students course credit as they design work for a variety of non-profit organizations. Projects have ranged from the widely used Genesis logo for the Messiah College solar car, to the award-winning department viewbook, to work for the Brethren Ministries in Harrisburg. Various departmental internships also offer students discipline-related work/learning experiences in graphics firms, galleries, museums, and with local artisans.

While studio majors are not required to study at the Messiah Philadelphia Campus in order to complete their degree, study in Philadelphia offers unique cultural and educational opportunities including access to extensive museum and library collections. Students are able to take advantage of the resources and faculty of a large urban university, while living and working in a supportive and close-knit Christian residential community made up of students, faculty, and administrators.

Art Club Art Club is a valuable asset for those in the Messiah community who would like exposure to art but are not necessarily art majors. We are not merely an extension of the art major, but rather wish to involve anyone who has a desire to make or see art and learn about artists. The Art Club's mission is to serve God and others with our whole selves, especially with our creativity, talents, and abilities in art. We do this through discussion, fellowship and activities including student exhibitions, museum and gallery trips, live-model drawing sessions, and art sales in which students can sell their work.

Field Trips Individual classes have the opportunity to utilize the excellent gallery and museum resources of the four major metropolitan areas surrounding harrisburg: Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City. The Art Department sponsors a trip to New York City each fall where students can visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, and various galleries