Art: Studio Art BA, BFA

Turn your creative passions into a profession.

Paint brushes and paints

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 with our foundations program, a comprehensive series of drawing and design courses.
  • and topics include: drawing, two-dimensional design, digital media, art history, three-dimensional design and modern and contemporary art.
Art student making a ceramic piece

Studio Art BA Program Specifics

Understand the courses you鈥檒l take, the curriculum requirements to meet, how you鈥檒l progress through the program, and the concepts you鈥檒l gain mastery of. This program also offers a minor program option. Get all the detailed information you鈥檙e looking for.

Jenna Deangelis, art student making a piece

Studio Art BFA Program Specifics

Understand the courses you鈥檒l take, the curriculum requirements to meet, how you鈥檒l progress through the program, and the concepts you鈥檒l gain mastery of. This program also offers a minor program option. Get all the detailed information you鈥檙e looking for.

Our Art Faculty

Hear From a Student

Liping Zhang

Liping Zhang

鈥淪itting at the potter鈥檚 wheel, I forget the outside world. I sit at the wheel and everything becomes calm. It鈥檚 just me and my hands and the clay.鈥

Turn Artmaking into a Career

Artists doing their craft

The Business of Making Art

One of the most widely held clich茅s 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.