Visual Arts Major
Drawing and Painting Concentration (CA): Home
The impulse to make a mark on a surface is timeless. In the Drawing and Painting concentration, students are encouraged to deliberately consider cultural and aesthetic choices as they investigate their own development as artists. Within the context of an interdisciplinary liberal arts education, students approach drawing and painting as a visual language that both builds on its history and actively redefines contemporary practice. Students learn technical skills at the foundation levels, then augment these with experimental and conceptual approaches at the advanced levels. Just as drawing and painting have informed other visual media, students will understand how photography, video, film and digital media have fundamentally changed drawing and painting. Individual expression is encouraged. Frequent class trips to major exhibitions and a rich program of visiting artist lectures offers co-curricular enhancement to classroom learning. Small class size ensures individual attention and careful mentoring as students progress to graduation and post-graduate activities.
What is a Concentration?
A concentration is a focus on a more targeted field of the major. Some majors have concentrations in which you choose your course of study. These majors include Business Administration, Communication Arts, Music, and Social Science.
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