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Art & Design Department

Customize your craft by honing your technical skills. Develop your artistic vision through challenging courses, mentorship, and collaboration in Asbury's tight-knit Art & Design Department.

Do you enjoy creating new things? You can personalize your canvas by studying Art & Design at Asbury.

The Asbury University Art & Design Department exists to challenge and equip those who will advance and practice the visual arts.

At Asbury University, you can study painting, sculpture, ceramics, stained glass, printmaking, drawing, multimedia, graphic design, photography and art history. All Studio students are provided with studio space and complete a public senior exhibit prior to graduation. Art History students pursue internships and public presentation of research. Those seeking certification to teach are trained for P-12 student learning.

An hour and a half south of Cincinnati, Asbury University is located in the beautiful Bluegrass region outside of Lexington, Kentucky, across the street from Asbury Theological Seminary.

Asbury Art & Design Professors Present Research on Sacred Spaces

Feb 19, 2024 — Asbury Art & Design professors Dr. Linda Stratford and Keith Barker ’91 recently presented their research project, Sacred Spaces in Central Kentucky, in the Walt and Rowena Shaw Collaborative Learning Center (Shaw CLC).

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Asbury Graphic Designer Showcases Logo for Lexington’s 250th Anniversary

Feb 6, 2024 — Media Communication alumna Savannah Riley ’17 Guthrie submitted a logo design which Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton and members of the 250 Lex Commission selected to promote the celebration of the City of Lexington’s 250th anniversary, coming in 2025.

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Asbury Alumni Artists Reunite for Shaw CLC Art Installations

Dec 4, 2023 — In November, Asbury Art Professor Emeritus Rudy Medlock joined alumni artists Glenn Howell ’81 and Edward Knippers ’69 to celebrate their recent art installations in the Shaw Collaborative Learning Center (Shaw CLC).

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Alumni Feature: Athlete Turned Artist-Teacher Kevin Scott ’96

Sep 1, 2023 — Kevin Scott ’96 lived in a Florida homeless shelter with his family for 18 months before coming to Asbury to play baseball in 1992.

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