{"id":30,"date":"2013-07-06T22:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art_new\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the School of Art &amp; Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/files\/MU_ART_lettertype_2017_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Image of MU Art spelled out with old typeface elements. \" width=\"400\" height=\"185\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Our interdisciplinary curriculum includes traditional and online courses that are rigorous and relevant, with small class sizes to support the development of each student\u2019s creative voice. Art &amp; Design faculty, celebrated for their individual accomplishments, are committed to teaching excellence and maintaining high standards in an engaging, supportive environment.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the School of Art &amp; Design with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\">School of Music,\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\">School of Theatre,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/\">School of Journalism and Mass Communications,<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cam\/\">College of Arts and Media,<\/a> play an integral role on campus and in the community.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind&#8211;computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind\u2014creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people\u2014artists, inventors, designers,\u00a0storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers&#8211;will now reap society&#8217;s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Daniel H. Pink<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our interdisciplinary curriculum includes traditional and online courses that are rigorous and relevant, with small class sizes to support the development of each student\u2019s creative voice. Art &amp; Design faculty, celebrated for their individual accomplishments, are committed to teaching excellence and maintaining high standards in an engaging, supportive environment. Together, the School of Art &amp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":6418,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7573,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/7573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}