ART at Cornell University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ART coursework.

• ART 3006Advanced Practiceopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• ART 4003Thesis Iopens 4 courses (2 directly)
• ART 3005Advanced Practiceopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• ART 4001Thesis Iopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ART 4100Senior Seminaropens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ART work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 55 ART and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 60 more ART courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ART, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ART. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ART 4002

  1. ART 4100Senior Seminar
  2. ART 4001Thesis I
  3. ART 4002Thesis II

• 4 courses deep, ending at ART 4004

  1. ART 2103First-Year Studio Research Workshop
  2. ART 3006Advanced Practice
  3. ART 4003Thesis I

• 2 courses deep, ending at ART 3099

  1. ART 2501Drawing: Introduction to Drawing
  2. ART 3099Special Topics Studio

• 2 courses deep, ending at ART 3201

  1. ART 2201Painting: Introduction to Painting
  2. ART 3201Painting: Spatial Transpositions in Painting

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ART sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Anna Gorchakovskaya
• Carl Ostendarp
• Carla Liesching
• Carolina Ciampaglia
• Elisabeth Meyer
• Jen Delos Reyes
• Joanna Malinowska
• Jolene Rickard
• Keith Obadike
• Kyle Bellucci Johanson
• Leeza Meksin
• Leslie Brack
• Liana Miuccio
• Luca Padroni
• Matt Bollinger
• Michael Ashkin
• Nicholas Muellner
• Paul Ramirez Jonas
• Paulina Velazquez Solis

Cornell professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ART yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

ART does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.