Career Opportunities

Graduates from the Whitworth Art & Design Department enter into a number of diverse vocations, including jobs in professional and educational fields. They are well prepared to be successful employees in the corporate and nonprofit worlds. An art degree provides each student with opportunities to practice problem-solving skills and to gain a solid work ethic that will carry graduates through the rest of their lives.

Our graduates have found employment at the following companies, among many others:

• Community-minded Enterprises
• The Lumiere Group
• Nike
• Northwest Museum of Art and Culture
• Seattle Art Museum
• Stuart Advertising, Spokane
• Westerly Creative Studio
• ZGF Architects

Our graduates have also been accepted into graduate/professional schools that include the following:

• Pratt Institute
• The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
• Florida State University
• Gonzaga University
• University of Arizona
• University of Birmingham, UK
• University of Illinois, Chicago
• University of Chicago
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Washington State University