Art: Studio Art BA, BFA

Turn your creative passions into a profession.

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As you master your craft, learn about the business of making art.

Our world-class faculty, who are practicing artists, will guide you through personalized education and hands-on experiences.

Career Opportunities

  • Practicing Artist
  • Design Entrepreneur
  • Art/Creative Director
  • Art Teacher
  • Production Artist
  • Arts Organization Administrator

Why Art Studio? | Why Our Program?

  • We offer two degree options: a Bachelor of Arts for broad-based knowledge and a Bachelor of Fine Arts for in-depth professional training.
  • Choose from eight concentrations: ceramics, digital media, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture.
  • All art majors begin by completing the foundations program, a comprehensive series of courses in drawing and design.
  • Topics covered in the and the include: drawing, two-dimensional design, digital media, art history, three-dimensional design and modern and contemporary art.

Studio Art BA Specifics

Studio Art BFA Specifics

Our Art Faculty

Hear From a Student

Liping Zhang

Liping Zhang

“Sitting at the potter’s wheel, I forget the outside world. I sit at the wheel and everything becomes calm. It’s just me and my hands and the clay.â€

Turn Artmaking into a Career

Artists doing their craft

The Business of Making Art

One of the most widely held clichés in the art world is that if you're an artist, the probability's high that you're going to starve.

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Arts and Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a community of scholars that pride themselves on academic excellence, diversity and service.