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Art + Design Honors Seminars

Learn How to Bring Your Art to the World

Are you:

  • The type who gives 120%?
  • Self-motivated?
  • Interested in enhancing your learning through specialized projects and professional experiences?

Our Honors Seminars provide first and second year students with a unique, highly professionalized experience. In each Honors Seminar, you'll respond to a real-world public art project. This will involve researching, conceptualizing and presenting a prototype for work of public art in the Boston area. In the process, you'll have an opportunity to develop your creative skills and artistic voice!

How to Apply:

Submit an artist statement with your portfolio or submit your artist statement separately.

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All students who are accepted into the College of Art & Design Honors Program are granted an additional $1,000 honors scholarship.

What's it about?
  • You'll create thumbnails, Maquettes, a proposal, and present the results to a jury of professional artists and designers.
  • You'll work with faculty, professional artists and designers as well as fellow students from different disciplines.
  • Applying is easy. Just sign up for our Foundations Honor Seminar as one of your classes.

Not sure or have questions? Talk to us!

Stuart Steck, Chair of Division of Integrated Studies, ssteck@lesley.edu

Leah Craig, First-Year Experience and Honors Program, lcraig@lesley.edu

What You'll Do
  • Engage in research and critical analysis as you develop an original prototype that reflects your voice as an artist and designer.
  • Learn various design processes and techniques that reflect a broad range of art and design practices.
  • Gain experience working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary studio setting.
  • Engage with professionals in various art and design fields.
  • Experience art and design on site.
students collaborating in class

Meet Honors Student Jessica Mahoney ’21

When Graphic Design major Jessica was invited to join the College of Art and Design Honors Program she viewed it as a necessary challenge.
Read Jessica Mahoney's Q&A
24 Honors Students

That's how many new students joined the College of Art and Design Honors Program in 2018-19. You can enter as a first-year, transfer, or current student.
lunder arts center

Lunder Arts Center

Learn more about the Lunder Arts Center.
2019 Phi Eta Sigma Inductees

Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society

To be eligible for Phi Eta Sigma, undergraduate students in any disciplines must earn at least a 3.5 GPA in their first year in college. Founded in 1923, Phi Eta Sigma is the nation's oldest and largest honor society for first-year students. Inspired by the past and dedicated to the future, the Society's mission is to encourage and reward academic excellence. Talk to your advisor for more information.
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