“The artist has to be a man of fully developed heart and fully developed mind. With full development of his heart, his life will blossom in fulfillment; and with full development of his mind, his life will be in harmony with everything around him.”
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The Department of Art and Design is dedicated to developing the deepest values of your creative expression. Students discover their own inspiration by accessing the unbounded source of creativity within themselves. We provide a life-supporting environment in which personal inspiration can attain artistic realization. Living within this unique community, students discover their inner genius and begin to unfold their full potential in their art and in their lives.

The fine arts are the creative self-expression of consciousness, articulating the awareness of the artist and enlivening the awareness of the audience. To attain the finest values of art, the artist and the audience must experience the most expanded values of consciousness. This vital growth is systematically accomplished at Maharishi University of Management through its unique programs to develop consciousness. Through their connection with the deep mechanics of creativity, our art students very naturally find themselves experiencing effortless and spontaneous creative expressions.

What Our Students Gain

• the progressive development of consciousness — the basis of all creativity — through scientifically validated techniques, including the Transcendental Meditation^® program, a simple procedure that can be practiced by anyone
• practical training in the visual arts: painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, photography, as well as video, digital media, and movement.
• profound intellectual understanding of the arts and their relationship to inner and outer life

Traditionally, the arts have celebrated the most glorious possibilities for human life: beauty, joy, and wholeness. These ideals are now becoming realities of creative expression and daily life for students at Maharishi University of Management.

The faculty invite you to contact us to discuss how our programs can fulfill your personal and artistic aspirations. (Email addresses and telephone numbers are available on each faculty member's page.)

Comments from Outside Evaluators

"An innovation in 21st-century art education has been planted in the central plains of Iowa. It has been developed and nourished by enormously dedicated, impressively credentialed, and professionally recognized artist-teachers. The Maharishi University of Management art curriculum, carefully articulated and intensely structured, appears to be challenging, relevant, and thoroughly professional."
— Aribert Munzer, Professor Emeritus, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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"The faculty are dedicated to the success of their students.  .  .  One of the great strengths of your program is the students you attract: They are mature and enormously varied in geographical, social, and ethnic backgrounds. They are serious, vital, alert, polite, and energetic students. They are confident about their futures."
— Anthony Batchelor, Professor of Art, Art Academy of Cincinnati

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I have now taught art for thirty years. Those qualities I value the most are very, very present at your university. . . an educational institution needs to have a big picture of what it is trying to do. . . an understanding of what art is, how it works, what it can do. . . it is a community of shared values and a common language that sustains an discoverable, individual voice. . . The greatest strengths of the program are in the faculty and the sense of community. This sense of community I can only surmise arises out of a cohesive view of reality, the world, and the cosmos."
—David Dunlap, Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa