What is Studio Art?
The studio art program offers a rich and diverse range of investigations across the disciplines of art making, including animation, ceramics, communication design, drawing, electronic media, fibers, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and many other unique courses.
Integrating extensive liberal arts offerings with a broad studio experience, majors choose to balance exploration with focus in a particular area as preparation for graduate school or future work in an art-related field. Critical thinking, imaginative problem solving, and self-reflective evaluation are key components in the development of the theoretical and technical aspects of art making. Through art courses students gain competency in visual language, an increasingly important skill in contemporary culture. Visual and verbal analytical and organizational skills learned in the studio apply to thoughtful practice in many arenas of our complex world.
What's the major like?
The studio art major presents students with a four-course foundations program to be completed within the first two years. Students then proceed through exploratory courses chosen from each of our studio areas. In the third and fourth years of study students concentrate in an area of their choice. Faculty participate not only as teachers within their area of expertise but also as advisors, who help students select and pursue the courses and course study best suited to the student.
