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The Art Department at SPU prepares students to pursue a wide range of disciplines — all of them demanding a healthy dose of 同理心. To make art and 设计, or even to successfully talk about art and 设计, practitioners must develop a self-awareness that helps them tap into the universal human experience. Then they must use 同理心 to connect with others and determine how that experience can be communicated across persons, 文化, time, 和空间. Art and 设计 translate deep inner experiences so that they can be shared. Truly successful works of art and 设计 can help connect people who have never met; they can help us realize that all of us, 到处都是, are preciously and profoundly human, with the same wounds, 同样的欲望, the same delights, and the same aspirations.
西雅图太平洋 University aims to equip all students to understand and interface with the diverse communities of the Pacific Northwest, the United States, 这个世界. We’re motivated to do this thanks to the Christian conviction that everyone, 到处都是, is made in the image of God. The Art Department is an important contributor to that mission. 在工作中, whether we’re using 设计 to raise awareness of global challenges, paint or film to gain poetic insight into human suffering or research and writing skills to uncover and translate artistic meaning, we proceed with deep respect and, 是的, 同理心. We hope our students go out into the world a little wiser and a little more compassionate. 最终, we have faith that our graduates will be part of the change — part of the Spirit’s yearning for greater peace and harmony in the world.
“For me, the arts are about 同理心. And in this time of national and global division, 同理心 is more important than ever before.”
— Karen Gutowsky-Zimmerman (she/her)
Chair, Art Department Professor + Program Director, Visual Communication Design