In the Department of Art Education, students pursue highly diversified studies into the educational significance of art and the aesthetic formation of human character, engaging in both creative activity to mobilize their practical skills and research rooted in theoretical thinking.

In practical creative endeavors, students expand their horizons in an expansive range of artistic areas, striving to heighten the caliber of their specialized skills as purveyors of expression. They likewise inquire the essential significance of art in the formation of human thought, development and other aspects at the source of expression. They devote themselves to studies designed to theoretically deepen the discovery and the experience gained from their own works. 

On the creative side, the Department maintains a broad view that extends to interdisciplinary links with other fields. On the theoretical research front as well, in addition to theories of creation and education, collaborations are actively engineered with artistic anatomy, graphic or color science and other fields involving the fundamentals of art, as well as with other disciplines linked to the basics of human life. This is all part of the Department ’s integrated quest to lay the groundwork for higher quality of art education for many years to come. 

The Department of Art Education was founded in 1963 as an independent course within the university ’s graduate school. Over the past half century, the Department has graduated a steady stream of outstanding individuals. 

We look forward to the shining exploits of the graduates of this department across an impressive range of artistic and educational domains in the future. 

*The Department of Art Education is in the Special Graduate Courses (master’s program and doctoral program).
*Curriculum Policy (Tokyo University of the Arts Website)