Areas of Study
We aim to provide a dynamic environment for students to cultivate their various artistic talents and knowledge.
What We Offer
Our department offers a range of concentrations that encourage artistic exploration and skill development. Whether it's studying the evolution of civilizations through art history or working hands-on in ceramics, painting, and sculpture. In graphic design and printmaking/imaging arts, you’ll engage with both digital and traditional processes to communicate visually. Our faculty provides personalized guidance, helping you grow both technically and conceptually.
Art History
Learn about monuments, significant artists, and artistic periods in Western and non-Western cultures. Gain art studio fundamentals, learn about art theory and criticism, conduct research, and discern the hidden and not-so-hidden ideas behind images.
Ceramics
Ceramics is an ancient art, dating back to prehistory. Our students learn to use clay as an artistic medium: throwing, building, molding, glazing and firing—as well as experimentation with new techniques. Students explore individual ideas and develop a personal vocabulary of aesthetics.
Graphic Design
Graphic Design is an artistic and commercial discipline that balances technical ability and skills in artful presentation. Students use their creative and intellectual talents to problem solve in rigorous courses that prepare them for careers using the visual representation of symbols, images, and words to convey ideas and messages.
Painting
Students learn to work in diverse styles of representational, imaginative, and abstract painting. Light, color, texture, and tone are the tools they use to create a broad array of two-dimensional art. Whether they are working in tempera, fresco, oil, watercolor, ink, or other visual media, they create unique visual images that are expressions of an adept and inspired studio practice.
Printmaking and Imaging Arts
Our printmaking studio teaches the traditional mediums of relief, intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen while also encouraging the use of photo processes, digital, and alternative methods. Imaging arts students learn both established and experimental techniques of photography, lighting, and digital arts while refining their personal visual language as an expressive tool.
Sculpture
Sculpture encourages the creating, shaping, or combining of three-dimensional objects. Designs may be produced as freestanding objects (i.e., in the round), in relief, or in environments, and a variety of media may be used, including clay, wax, stone, metal, fabric, wood, plaster, rubber, and found objects. Materials may be carved, modeled, molded, cast, wrought, welded, sewn, or assembled and combined.