Art Education with K-12 Teaching Certification (B.S.)

Art Education Major

School of the Arts

Department of Visual Arts

Art education majors get classroom experience at Messiah College.

Future art educators seeking hands-on classroom experience before graduation can look to Messiah College. The hallmark of our program is that you'll receive excellent training as both an artist AND an educator. Art education majors take almost the very same studio courses as other art majors, so you'll be uniquely equipped to be an artist-educator.

As a student here, you’ll thrive in a highly rewarding, yet demanding environment—one that also integrates faithful stewardship of your creative gifts by encouraging and supporting you with open and honest affirmation.  And, you’ll see the positive results of all your hard work:  our students have a 100 percent pass rate on the Praxis exam, 100 percent of graduates are state certified, and a large percentage obtain full-time teaching positions.

As an art education major at Messiah College, you’ll be able to:

• Develop the ideas and the skills necessary for work as a professional artist, educator, or art historian.
• Prepare and teach Saturday morning art classes for children from nearby urban school districts each fall.
• Have an opportunity to teach in an international school.
• Display your studio work in a senior advanced studies class.
• Spend six weeks student teaching at the elementary level and six weeks teaching at the secondary level.
• Join the Art League, a group that meets for critiques, films, and discussion, as well as an art sale each semester.
• Earn a Pennsylvania K-12 certification, qualifying you to teach any level in any public school in Pennsylvania.

 Concentrations in this Major:

• Graphic Design and Digital Art (PDF Listing)
• Three-Dimensional Studies (PDF Listing)
• Two-Dimensional Studies (PDF Listing)