Studying the arts teaches us how to see, giving us the creative and visual literacy tools to navigate an ever more visual world. Art assembles and coalesces disparate bodies of knowledge, ideas, and perspectives: learning to become practitioners and scholars of art provides the skills to create, critique, engage, and communicate'skills needed in all walks of life.<br><br>Art has the transformative capacity to change the way we see and understand the world. It can productively defamiliarize the ordinary and everyday so people can look at society, culture, bodies, landscapes, and the future in new and expansive ways. Art and design enrich our lives and offer rewarding, fulfilling, and sustainable careers.<br><br>To prepare students for a multitude of careers in the arts and beyond, the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Connecticut welcomes all artists, designers, and scholars committed to pursuing practice and collaboration, research and investigation, and who share our values of conceptual and scholarly rigor, creative aspiration, manual and digital dexterity, and formal expertise. Art & Art History is a dynamic community of artists and scholars that offers students a rich mix of resources, courses, events, and experiences designed to reflect and expand the creative, productive, and scholarly potential that the visual arts hold in contemporary society.