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Art Studio

Bachelor of Arts

The Art Studio program promotes and encourages critical and visual innovation by immersing you in a diverse array of course offerings and studio specializations.

What You'll Study

Our program provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the practice of studio art. We encourage you to embark on a diverse and creative education that encompasses an array of courses in two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based art. By emphasizing idea together with expressive technique, you will participate and contribute to a critical conversation that is relevant to a contemporary creative society.

The Department of Visual Arts is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).

Sample Four Year Plans

Facilities

Foundations

Our foundation's program has one dedicated classroom for two-dimensional design and shares space with drawing and sculpture.

Ceramics

Ceramics has a large dedicated studio space that opens to our hotworks courtyard. The studio includes work surfaces for hand-building, 9 - motorized wheels and 2 - kick wheels for throwing forms, 4 - electric kilns, a glaze room that features a spray booth, and plenty of shelves for your art.

Drawing and Painting

Student drawing on a bench in the hallway of Edwards College of Arts & Humanities

Student drawing on a bench in the hallway of Edwards College of Arts & Humanities

Drawing and painting have two dedicated studios that open to our hotworks courtyard.

Both have access to:

  • 37studio easels
  • 1 - large modeling stand
  • 13 -  portable easels
  • 19 – drawing horses
  • 18 - taborets
  • and a fleet of still life objects.
Photography

Photography Student with film negatives in the photography studio.

Photography Student with film negatives in the photography studio.

Photography occupies three spaces. The primary photography classroom has an adjoining dedicated darkroom with 15-medium format enlargers, 2-large format enlargers, and 2-Amergraph ULF exposure units for alternative processes.  The classroom has a dedicated iMac and Epson 3880 for digital negatives. The second photography studio is a shared space with design. It has 15-27" iMacs and two Epson printers.The third space is for the LUSCA Studio. It is a hybrid facility that is used by our pre-professional course for design and photography, a.k.a. The LUSCA Studio, and our studio lighting courses. This space is equipped with 4 – 27” monitors for students to plug their laptops into for use, a tabloid scanner, color laser printer, a conference table and flatscreen for client meetings, and a fully functioning lighting studio for photography. All labs use Adobe Creative Cloud.

Print-Making

Printmaking has a dedicated studio that opens to the hotworks courtyard. Within the studio space you will find a 62 x 39.5 Takach etching press, a Laguna 26 x 48 etching press, a Takach-Garfield 25 x 44 lithography press, a large Theimer vacuum platemaker exposure unit, and a plate cutter. There are also flat files for print and supply storage.  

Sculpture

Sculpture occupies multiple studio spaces. The common space for sculpture is a woodshop and 3D design studio that opens to the hotworks courtyard. Our shop features 1 - 10” sawstop table saw, 2 – 12” disc sanders, bandsaw, compound mitre saw, and an ample amount of space to store all of your favorite toys. Sculpture’s second space, a.k.a. The Hotworks, houses all of our metal fabrication equipment for both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. In this space you will find a sand muller for mold-making, a furnace with a 180lb crucible capacity, 3- blacksmith forges’, cutting torch, plasma cutter, 2 – silversmith torches, a centrifugal caster, burn out kiln, 4’ capacity slip roll, 3 – MIG welders, 1 – TIG welder, and so much more for jewelry and metalsmithing. 

Experiences Beyond the Classroom

Graduates of the Art Studio program have moved on to top graduate programs in their fields of study and applied their skills and knowledge to start their own businesses, to working as museum or gallery educators, and to promote higher education. As an Art Studio major your options can range from fine art production to an array of opportunities that include Arts Administration and Management, Gallery Direction, Display Coordinator, Cultural planning and so much more.

 

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