| Montserrat College of Art | |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Art Changes Everything" |
| Established | 1970 |
| Type | Private college |
| Endowment | $603,910 |
| President | Stephen D. Immerman |
| Undergraduates | ~300 |
| Location | Beverly, Massachusetts, United States |
| Campus | suburban |
| Website | http://www.montserrat.edu |
Montserrat College of Art is a four-year residential college specializing in the visual arts, located in Beverly, Massachusetts, 23 miles north of Boston.
The school was founded in 1970 as Montserrat School of Visual Arts. It was accredited as a college in the mid-1980s at which time it changed to its current name. In 1992 the school moved to its current location off Cabot Street on Essex Street in the Hardie Building, a renovated 19th century school building that serves as the center of the campus.
Currently, the campus includes the central Hardie Building, the 301 Cabot Studio Building, apartment-style residence halls, and a number of academic buildings. A new residence hall, the Helena J. Sturnick Student Residence Village, was also constructed and opened for the start of the fall 2009 semester. The school emphasizes the positives of its small size, which allows more academic attention to the progress of each individual student. Montserrat has an active student body of 357 students in fall 2010.
The college hosts annual summer conferences with international involvement and several study abroad opportunities.
The college galleries exhibit the work of prominent international, national and regional contemporary artists and offer free lectures and events intended to take art education beyond the college's classrooms.
Among the college's alumni are prominent fashion designer Sigrid Olsen, sculptor Carlos Dorrien, and children's book illustrator Giles Laroche.
Montserrat offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Animation and Interactive Media, Book Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting and Drawing, Photography/Video, Printmaking, Sculpture, Self-Designed studies; and a program in Art Education, as well as minors in Art History and Creative Writing. It also offers non-credit classes for adults, teens, and children and for-credit summer programs for high school students.