Within a professional studio environment, students explore various fundamental artistic processes. All visual art students work to build a balanced portfolio, acceptable for admission to the nation’s top art colleges. Within each studio course, students are introduced to a variety of techniques particular to that individual medium. Through this process, students continually acquire, and improve upon, fundamental skills and concepts central to all visual art: composition, form, light, color, line, shape, texture, and others.
Students receive 10 to 13 hours of in-class studio instruction per week, where their work is regularly critiqued and evaluated. Working closely with faculty and peers, students learn to develop their own personal artistic language. As students develop the skills specific to each particular medium, they also learn to address a broad range of issues in their artwork from personal expression to considerations of size and scale. From the start, students learn to discuss their artwork, articulate their ideas, and, ultimately, identify specific goals and challenges in their artwork.
