STUDIO ARTS

Architecture, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting,

Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Typography

The Studio Art Program enables students to become fluent in visual language, its analytical and critical vocabulary, and the rigors of its technique and method, as a means to explore intellectual issues and human experience. To this end, students learn technique while searching for a personal vision, beginning with basic studies in drawing and introductory art history, proceeding through study of various media, and working toward the successful completion of the major's comprehensive requirement--the presentation of a one-person exhibition in the spring of the senior year. The program seeks to reflect the diversity of technical and intellectual approaches practiced in the field of visual art, and is open to interdisciplinary experimentation as well as traditionally focused studies.

Students majoring in studio art must satisfactorily complete The Introduction to the History of Art (ARHA 101) and Drawing I (ARST 131) as early as possible, and, in addition, at least seven other courses numbered 200 or higher, to include: two art history courses, at least one of which must be non-Western; four studio courses, of which at least one must be in any of the three-dimensional areas (sculpture, ceramics, architecture); and at least one semester of Senior Thesis Tutorial. Further course study in studio and particularly in art history or film studies, as well as a second semester of Senior Thesis Tutorial, are strongly recommended. Majors are expected to elect a balanced general education program consistent with University guidelines.