Art

Los Angeles is a city that is driven by creative people. Ready to join them? Your education at Mount Saint Mary’s University will prepare you with the technical, creative and cognitive skills you need to launch your career in art.

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Internships

Career Opportunities

To achieve a competitive edge in the job market, students should prepare for the work environment through internships. Whether paid or volunteer, internships provide art majors with off-campus learning experience in the business world.  

Through an internship you will: 

  • Learn professional skills in the workplace. 
  • Identify and advance your career objectives. 
  • Form networks with working professionals. 
  • Develop relationships with potential employers. 

MSMU art majors intern at a variety of businesses, including recent appointments at Walt Disney Studios, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the Mount’s own web department. 

José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery

The José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery is located on the Chalon Campus. The gallery’s public exhibition program began under the guidance of Sister Ignatia Cordis in 1974. 

The Gallery reflects the current cultural issues faced by artists, collectors, museum curators, students and the general public. Although the Gallery is located on the University grounds, much of its active audience and support comes from the outside community.  

José Drudis-Biada's artistic contributions and personal generosity have touched many, especially those affiliated with Mount Saint Mary’s. His paintings enrich the viewer’s eye and remain an inspiration to artists and students alike. When Drudis-Biada was younger, his father sent him to study with local art teacher Ruiz Picasso, the father of Pablo Picasso. His life was rich with achievements, and his legacy lives on at Mount Saint Mary’s. 

The College Collection consists of 92 works, including oil paintings, watercolors and drawings spanning the prolific career of José Drudis-Biada. 

Painting of a tree

José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery

Painting of a town and tunnel
Painting of a lake with sailboats

lake

Painting of a tree with a small town in the background

Tree

Past exhibits

Learn more about some of the previous exhibits featured in the José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery.

  • You, Me & They Portraying Us exhibit

    You, Me & They Portraying Us

    You, Me & They Portraying Us employed curatorial activism as a mode of inquiry to challenge the assumptions and erasures of voices in hegemonic narratives. In this exhibition, artists included portraying their multifaceted identities, sometimes interwoven with their psychological struggles and further complicated by public perceptions of who they are, should be, or could be.

  • Keen*

    Keen*

    *The Irish tradition of keening over the body during the funeral procession. The "keen" itself is thought to have been constituted of stock poetic elements (the listing of the genealogy of the deceased, praise for the deceased, emphasis on the woeful condition of those left behind etc.) set to vocal lament. While generally carried out by one or several women, a chorus may have been intoned by all present.

  • Love Thy Neighbor poster

    Artists, Advocates, Dreamers

    California, since its conception as a state in 1850 has been a mecca for freethinkers and pioneers. Prior to that it was Mexican and Indigenous; a land of mestizos “mixed race” peoples who negotiated identity between many worlds. In “Artist, Advocates, Dreamers” artist as freethinkers brung the complexity of migration and identity to our attention through their advocacy and art.