Loyola University Maryland Fine Arts Department records

Collection

Identifier: LUMD-012-002

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Loyola University Maryland Fine Arts Department records, circa 1976-2016, contain records pertaining to academic and extracurricular arts on campus. The collection documents the theatre activities of the department through records including photographs, posters, programs, flyers, and audio and video recordings. Music performances are documented to a lesser extent in the collection, through programs and audio and video recordings.

Dates

Creation: circa 1976-2019

Creator

Loyola University Maryland. Fine Arts Department (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is located at the Loyola Notre Dame Library. Contact Archives and Special Collections for more information.

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Loyola University Maryland Fine Arts Department records are the physical property of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Notre Dame Library. Copyright, except in cases where material has passed into the public domain, belongs to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.

Biographical / Historical

Fine arts courses have had a long history at Loyola, evolving from single courses held in a variety of departments into a separate department. The following is a timeline based on information in Loyola undergraduate catalogs.

1929-30: Fine arts courses first appear under “Courses of Study” (which are not delineated as departments): Music, “Elements of Music” and “History and Appreciation of Music.”
1937-38: Two music courses are listed in the Mathematics and Physics Department.
1939-40: The same two courses are listed in a separate Physics Department.
1943: Art Appreciation (not a department) lists two courses: “Appreciation of Architecture” and “Appreciation of Music.”
1946-47: Department of Fine Arts is listed with three courses: “History of Architecture,” Allied Art,” and “Appreciation of Music.”
1959-60: Department of Ancient Classics and Art lists a two-semester “Introduction to Art History.”
1969-70: A special interdisciplinary course, “Film Study,” is listed.
1971-72: Department of Communication Arts appears and includes courses in film, architecture, photography, theater, and music.
1975-76. “Introduction to the Visual Arts” and “Studio Art” are added. Fine Arts course are given FA prefix and a separate segment within Communication Arts.
1976-77: Fine arts courses continue within Communication Arts, but “Fine Arts” as a separate segment includes only “Music” and “Dramatics.”
1977-78: The English Department becomes “English, Fine Arts, the Writing Program Department.” FA courses are a segment of this department and have expanded offerings, including “History of Art.”
1983-84: Department name changes to English and Fine Arts.
1987-88: Course prefixes for Art History (AH), Studio Art (SA), Photography (PT), Drama (DR), and Music (MU) are added.
1988-89: The Department of Fine Arts appears and continues to the present.

In 2019, the Fine Arts Department at Loyola University Maryland offers majors (or equivalent degree programs) in Art History, Music, Theatre, and the Visual Arts (with a concentration in either Studio Art or Photography). Minors and interdisciplinary majors are also offered in all of these areas. Each one of the programs in the department provides its students with a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum designed to first introduce students to the discipline and then develop increasing levels of mastery of the knowledge, skills, and habits of the field. All fine arts programs are located in the Julio Fine Arts Wing of the DeChiaro College Center, which houses not only the University’s McManus theatre and Julio Fine Arts Gallery, but also rehearsal rooms for the performing arts, specialized classrooms for art history, and fully-equipped studios for clay, drawing, and photography. Specialized spaces such as sound-proof practice and piano rooms, a clay green room, black-and-white and alternative-process darkrooms, digital laboratories, an electronic music studio, and a “black box” theatre are also a part of the facilities. Other on-campus spaces include both painting and printmaking studios.

Sources: https://www.loyola.edu/academics/fine-arts (accessed September 9, 2019)

Extent

3.68 Cubic Feet (Two record center cartons, one letter size document box, one flat box, three map case folders)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Loyola University Maryland Fine Arts Department records, circa 1976-2016, contain records pertaining to academic and extracurricular arts on campus. Fine arts courses have had a long history at Loyola, evolving from single courses held in a variety of departments into a separate department. The Fine Arts Department at Loyola University Maryland offers majors (or equivalent degree programs), minors, and interdisciplinary majors in Art History, Music, Theatre, and the Visual Arts (with a concentration in either Studio Art or Photography).