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"I'm Art! New Age philosophy major. Excited to live with you and laugh with you, and cry with you. Thought you might like to keep a dream journal!"
—Art

Art is a supporting character in Monsters University. He is a student at Monsters University, and a member of the Oozma Kappa fraternity. Art is a New Age Philosophy major.[1] 

He is a medium-sized monster, in the shape of an arch. He has two small arms, light purple shaggy fur with two dark purple stripes on both legs, and a large mouth with round teeth. During the Scare Games, he wears two wrist bands (on his legs) with the Oozma Kappa symbol on it, that were knitted by Ms. Squibbles.

Director Dan Scanlon says of him he is "that [weird] college guy you don’t know anything about,"[2] and that he is a student "Not quite sure what he should be... and we're not quite sure what he is either."[3]

Official Bio[]

"The ultimate free spirit, Art is a mysterious monster with a questionable background. By far the strangest member of the Oozma Kappas, Art bowls over the competition—sometimes literally—with his unique dexterity and wild-card ways. Nothing is scarier than the unpredictable, especially when it comes to this furry ball of bad."[4]

Monsters University[]

Art is introduced, along with his other fraternity brothers, when Mike and Sulley move into the Oozma Kappa fraternity home, where he offers both of them a "dream journal". He helps with the initiation for the two. In the first round of the Scare Games, the Toxicity Challenge, Art really wants to touch the stinging glow urchins that the players must avoid. He ignores that fact, but learns his lesson after scooping up a large amount and getting his body swelled up in pain.

When the team is talking to Mike on the campus, he and the others are instructed by Mike to follow his exact moves in the next round. In the next round of the Scare Games, he and the others are perfectly silent, but after Sulley accidentally messes up, Art distracts the librarian by getting into a sort of hysteria and wreaking havoc in the library, and avoids getting caught by her. Later at the ROR party, Art shows off his dance moves before getting humiliated by Johnny Worthington, along with the rest of Oozma Kappa. All but Mike is discouraged, until he takes the team on a trip to Monsters, Inc. to get their spirits high again.

As the games continue, Art and the others do well, leading up to the final event, where they must scare in the simulator. In Art's turn, he is up against Javier Rios. Art uses his stealth and acrobatic skills to avoid stepping on any toys in the simulator, and scares the child robot. His score was a 10.5 out of 20, shared with Terri & Terry, which while decent, wasn't enough to keep up with the high scores of three ROR members.

After Oozma Kappa wins the final round, he and the others celebrate, until Mike finds out that Sulley cheated for him and runs away, very heartbroken. When the group finds out that Mike went into the human world, they distract the security guards for Sulley to go into the door and save Mike. When they return and are escorted by the CDA, Roz assures the friends that whatever happens to the two is up to Dean Hardscrabble.

After Art and the others find out that Mike and Sulley have been expelled, they say their goodbyes, and also assure them that Hardscrabble has invited them to join in the next semester of the Scaring program, as she was impressed by their work in the games.

In the credits of the film, a Scare Card of Art is seen, indicating that he eventually graduated as a Scarer for Monsters, Inc.

Party Central[]

Art re-appears in the short film Party Central, where his callsign was "Fuzzy Rainbow".

Personality[]

Art is considered to be a bit of an odd-ball. He has a good heart, but rather oblivious for the most part. He has many different interests, some of them nobody might know. In school, before becoming a Scaring Major later on, he was a New Age Philosophy major. He's quite skilled at acrobatics, dancing, and flexibility. He also apparently likes to keep a dream journal with him.

Trivia[]

  • When the movie was in development, Dan Scalton described each of the misfit characters to sketch artists Jason Deamer and Chris Sasaki, but with Art, he just said "think mysterious." They went variation after variation and got really frustrated. Finally, Chris Sasaki drew an "A" for his name and put two eyes in there. The character slowly evoluted from there.
  • He is the only named student without a known last name.
  • He's the only team member of Oozma Kappa (besides Sully and Mike) who does not wear any type of clothing up until he received wristbands.
  • Art seemingly served prison time for unknown charges, though the specific circumstances were not mentioned.
  • In the movie, Art comments on "having an extra toe" but not with him, implying it's someone else's toe.

Quotes[]

  • "Of all the sewers on campus, this one has always been my favorite."
  • "I have a life outside of the house, you know."
  • "Wow, nice fence."
  • "I can't go back to jail!"
  • "Yeah, me neither. I don't want to get too big."
  • "I want a piece of that action!"
  • "I wanna touch it."
  • "Yeah, I wanna touch 'em."
  • "I have an extra toe." (laughs) "Not with me, of course."

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