Biola University recently shared that Bardwell Hall will be the new home of Biola’s vibrant community of visual artists. Opening in fall 2020, the renovated and reimagined Bardwell Hall will be an ideal place to create, ideate, congregate and find inspiration. The building was previously used by the science department before moving into the recently built Alton and Lydia Lim Center for Science, Technology, and Health. Biola’s Department of Art has been training future art professionals for 50 years and they look forward to an exciting future.
The art department is currently scattered across campus, with offices in the Grove, the Fine Arts Building, the Nineties Building, and Rood Hall. Due to the construction of the Lim Science Center and other department projects, the department has lacked a cohesive home to call their own. The renovated hall will nearly double the department’s square footage and will feature a large student gallery as the signature space and formal entrance for the building. It will continuously showcase student work, as will as student-curated exhibitions. This will create numerous performance and exhibit opportunities for students in art, theatre, music and more.
The renovated Bardwell Hall will include the following:
- 1,100-square-foot student gallery
- 40 individual student studio spaces
- Outdoor art yard
- Outdoor exhibition space
- Rooftop terrace
- 5 large studio spaces for painting, drawing, photo lighting/documentation, new media, and interdisciplinary art
- 8 faculty/studio offices
- 2 computer labs
- Photo darkroom/lightroom
- Critique spaces
The Department of Art is a vibrant visual arts community that offers a professional visual arts program with a rigorous curriculum that reflects a strong liberal arts emphasis and a solid Christian worldview. Their art professors are dedicated to mentoring their diverse student body and strive to create an academic and spiritual environment where students will become thriving servant-leaders who as artists and designers understand the complexity of the world in which they live. The Department of Art is committed to training well-equipped students with the aesthetic, technical, conceptual skills and the Christian worldview needed for professional success and impact.
Click here to learn more about the exciting changes taking place in Biola’s Department of Art.
Source: Biola University