Bachelor of Fine Arts

The Bachelor of Fine Arts program encompasses the following disciplines:

Foundations

2D

3D

Media


Students are exposed to varied and challenging studio experiences in each of these programs, which are intended to heighten intellectual and visual perception and to furnish skills and techniques that such creative work demands. Fine artists provide original views and interpretations of the world and its inhabitants. By doing so, they give us an appreciation of the character and values of society and culture.

Mural image
Undergraduate Alex Jameson inaugurating her Catskeller mural designed in Professor Tarrence Corbin's Mural Painting class
Magro Foundation
Undergraduate students John Knight, Sarah Hess, Claudia Hershner, and Nicholas Disimile exhibiting at the Magro Foundation dinner.

Fine Art involves the free creation of objects, images, sounds, and concepts whose legitimacy does not lie in their commercial or utilitarian purpose yet whose value frequently turns out to exceed that of other human productions. Even though Fine Art thrives in this freedom from the normal constraints of the world, its inventions stimulate other disciplines, inform our emotional and political lives, and make our cities more livable.

Sculpture Area
Professor Matt Lynch talking with Undergraduate sculptors