BA/BS in Fine and Studio Arts

Studio art courses help students sharpen visual perception, think independently, and work flexibly across media. The offerings cover painting and drawing, printmaking, sculpture, camera-based work, moving image, and digital tools, giving students room to experiment and to find a personal material language. Instruction comes from working professional artists, and teaching is interactive and tailored to each student. Class time mixes demonstrations, guided experimentation, and candid critique. Students learn how materials and processes behave, adopt an exploratory method in which problems are identified through making, and observe visual, physical, and cultural surroundings with an analytical eye. Students are encouraged to link studio research with other fields and to find unexpected relationships among images, ideas, materials, and histories. Both a major and a minor are available, and the program emphasizes building technical skill alongside creative direction, so that work grows more confident and more individual over time.