Bachelor of Fine Arts
Special Features
Painting and Drawing Courses
- Explore painting and drawing as a special means to see and express one’s self in relation to the world.
- Explore the nature of painting — its forms, tools, materials, and processes.
- Develop a deep knowledge of the language of painting and the overarching visual principles that connect all forms of painting.
- Learn from in-depth interactions with faculty in small classes.
Ceramics Courses
- Relate the knowledge and experience of ceramics to the growth and evolution of one’s own consciousness.
- Develop knowledge of materials, processes, and traditions that have fostered the creation of clay pottery, sculpture, and tile.
- Work in a fully equipped studio, which allows students to develop experience with a variety of methods of working in clay — including handbuilding, wheelthrowing, and moldmaking; firing methods include low-fire, high-fire stoneware, soda, and raku.
Sculpture Courses
- Learn the underlying principles that apply to the space/mass, proportion, size, scale, light, and the formal language which is fundamental to sculpture.
- Gain knowledge of materials, structure, and forming methods.
- Address a range of topics that include knowledge of the figure, surface possibilities in relation to form, narrative development, installation, and site-specific outdoor work in nature.
- Use facilities for plaster, clay, wood, and metal work.
Digital Media / Photography / Video
- Explore the language of sight and sound and its relation to the inner value of consciousness. Creatively apply computer, photographic, and video technologies in well-equipped digital media and photo labs.
- Become proficient in software applications for photo image editing, Web page design, video editing, video composting, special effects, 3-D modeling, and graphic design.
- Enjoy project-oriented study that supports both fine art and commercial orientations using professional quality equipment.
- The industry demand for skilled computer artists in website design, feature films, television, advertising, photography, and graphic design offers a wide range of career possibilities for aspiring commercial artists who graduate from this program.
Digital Media Courses
- Develop a deeply interdisciplinary perspective, which prepares you for the digital, communications-intensive career world.
- Become proficient in advanced techniques in the field by interacting with computer lab software, by learning digital enhancement and manipulation, and by synthesizing photographic images.
Photography Courses
- Develop fundamental photographic skills in well-equipped facilities, which include group B/W darkroom, photo studio, film processing room, and advanced color darkroom; and learn the basic principles and techniques of digital commercial photography.
Video and Communications and Media Courses
- Explore contemporary digital techniques in video production using powerful Macintosh computers and camcorders for video and the Web. Write, direct and produce your own videos.
- Video students can take courses in photography, video production, narrative, documentary film-making, the history of film, computer graphics, and digital editing, and may participate in internships working at video production and design companies — preparing them for careers in the fields of film, video, animation, advertising, and Web design.