B.F.A. Concentrations

Combined Media
Combined media is a concentration established to accommodate students interested in combining visual art studio disciplines with film, video, theatre, dance, and music, as well as textile design and fashion design. Arts oriented studios are taken outside of the Department of Art to satisfy the equivalent of upper-level traditional art studios.

Electronic Imaging
Electronic imaging introduces students to a wide range of digital technologies used in artmaking. Students study techniques of digital imaging, video, and animation, and also have the opportunity to learn 3-D modeling.

Painting
Students are exposed to various techniques and processes within a topical studies structure that encourages development of conceptual, formal, and aesthetic concerns, which lie in both traditional and experimental limits of painting.

Photography
Photography students learn both black-and-white and color darkroom photography. They work on location and in the studio, study photo narrative and collage, and experiment with a variety of alternative photographic and light processes. Campus labs and darkrooms provide technical backup for all instruction.

Printmaking
The printmaking concentration includes intaglio etching, engraving, relief printing, lithography, silk screening (serigraphy), and digitally-based techniques. Students also prepare portfolios, artist’s books, and editions.

Sculpture
Students concentrating in sculpture work in a wide variety of media, such as plaster, wood concrete, stone, clay, rubber, wax, plastic, and metal. There are well-equipped metal-casting and welding areas in the Foundry. Following the technical training in Sculpture I and II, students are encouraged to pursue their individual artistic interests through work in both traditional and new genre sculptural practices, including site-specific installation and projection work.