Human beings have been creating objects of beauty or emotional power for millennia. Making art objects – from sculpture, to stories, from buildings, to dance – requires a great deal of skill, imagination, and cultural awareness; the cultivation of which has long been a professional undertaking. A wide range of related fields have developed to rigorously study and inform the artistic professions. Today, many academic institutions offer masters courses in arts, design, or architecture that allow students to build a firm basis of expertise in their chosen artistic field.
