Records related to the programming and operations of the West Georgia / State University of West Georgia / University of West Georgia Department of Art from 1980 to 2003 during Bruce Bobick's tenure (1979-2005) as chair. Items include faculty vitae, brochures, greeting cards, exhibit announcements and invitations, newspaper articles, photographs, catalogs and other publications, correspondence, printed programs, and memoranda.

Subjects covered include the professional accomplishments and activities of the art faculty, outreach efforts by the department, memoranda generated by the chair, the department's annual honors program, scholarships offered by the department, student art show openings, the department's Summer Art Programs in Bayeux, Paris, and London; and the retirement and granting of professor emeritus status to long-time art faculty member Henry Setter.