Get interdisciplinary training and combine multiple areas of interest.
AREAS OF FOCUS
- Ceramics: Wheel, hand-build, glaze, fire, mold/cast, figure
- Digital Art: Explore digital creation using industry standard programs and technologies
- Drawing: Observational, figurative, tranditional, contemporary
- Graphic Design: Contemporary skills, conceptual thinking, hands-on applications
- Painting: Traditional and contemporary approaches
- Printmaking: Traditional and digital image making for production
- Sculpture: Understand three-dimensionality, processes and materials
Requirements
Studio art majors may choose their major and minor from the areas of ceramics, digital art, drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, or sculpture. All studio majors are required to formalize a final thesis exhibition. The student will be responsible for the design and mounting of the show, arrangements for publicity through the University’s Office of Communication Services and The Prairie student newspaper, and handling invitations. Each student will undergo a critique of the show by a committee of three or more persons (the student’s faculty adviser and at least two additional faculty members from the department).
Catalog information: Studio Art B.F.A.