My name is Mimi Hovila.
I an an Art English double major and I am
a sophomore.
A big part of Lewis & Clark's Art Department
is that it is interdisciplinary.
It does feel like you are learning sort of
a holistic approach to art.
So I value that a lot and I think that that
definitely changes the way that I see myself
in the world as an artist, myself in the world
as a student, and just the world around me.
I declared the second half of my sophomore
year and it definitely changed the way that
I thought about my experience here.
It's a pretty small department but it's full
of incredible artists so it's really nice
in thats sense.
The professors are just fantastic.
It's like an intimate department in a lot
of ways.
Each material group has just one professor
that works very closely with all the students
who work in that material and therefore I've
formed really important mentor relationships.
What I like about them is that they're all
also artists.
So you can Google them and then see their work
and that's really cool to sort of get instruction
from people who are there.
It's been important as a way for me to sort
of analyze things.
The art department has helped me with the
rest of my academics because you have to learn
to slow down and by necessity pay attention
to detail and think through the process of
the thing before you actually jump in.
You know, there are tons of art schools and
there are tons of art majors, but I chose
this one and I still feel like that's special.
If somebody feels that art is important enough
and an important aspect of their identity,
the art major's a great program and there's
a lot of support from your fellow students.
There's a ton of support from the staff.
It's kind of a "We're all in this together"
sort of thing.
