Blue Connection

Blue Connection

Blue Connection

Blue Connection Art GalleryOpened in 2003, Blue Connection is ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ University’s retail art gallery located in the Madden Arts Center in Downtown Decatur. Focused on arts and specialty businesses, the retail location is used by students in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Arts & Entrepreneurship Program to grow their businesses. Products are conceived, designed, and/or crafted by the students who sell them. This year, Blue Connection hosted ten β€œAfter 5 Live” gallery events with exhibit openings on the first Friday of each month. The featured artists interact with guests and give a brief talk at the event.

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Arts & Entrepreneurship Program (A&E) Program is a six-credit course sequence providing learning-based business opportunities for students to practice self employment. The program utilizes curricular-based, experiential activities and student-run ventures to give students a live laboratory experience in developing, launching, and growing a business. Rather than learn before doing, students are expected to learn while doing by first launching a micro-venture in the program’s introductory course The Art of Entrepreneurship. Then, students explore growth though Blue Connection.

Hours of operation

12:00 PM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday 

By Appointment (call 217.521.4866)

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