Art - BA

As a student in Art, you’ll receive a thorough foundation and comprehensive training in art as a humanistic activity. The program prepares students who wish to become practicing artists, go on to graduate study or professional school, or diverge into related professional and academic fields. Through a comprehensive core foundation program, you’ll be first introduced to the diverse and hybrid practices of contemporary art, including study of the history, theory, and production of art. At the advanced level, you’ll have the opportunity to focus and individualize your aesthetic development while still maintaining an open attitude towards art and its ever-evolving contextual relationship with contemporary culture. You may also choose to partake in additional opportunities that make our program exceptional: internships, student exhibitions, off-campus projects, field trips, faculty assistantships, courses in the College of Creative Studies, the Art Department Honors Program, and learning from visiting artists and speakers.

• Fine Arts

• Academia

• Education

• Museums, galleries, and arts nonprofits

• Design

• Digital Media

• Galleries & Museums

• Private Companies & Non-profits

• Entrepreneurial Tracks as Artists & Designers

• Our department has a woodshop, 3D print lab, metal fabrication and sculpture facility, media arts lab, digital image input and output lab, and print, painting and drawing studios

• Our undergraduates have gone on to graduate study at UC Berkeley, Yale, UCLA, Washington University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, California Institute of the Arts, California College of the Arts, Claremont College, and the Slade London, among many others

• Art majors who are accepted into our Departmental Honors Program are awarded with their own studio space and have their senior thesis exhibition in the Glass Box Gallery

• History of Art & Architecture

• Film and Media Studies

• Media, Arts and Technology

• Theater and Dance

• Fine art

• Painting

• Drawing

• Printmaking

• Sculpture

• Interdisciplinary

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