Our trans-disciplinary curriculum is designed to prepare you for a future at the forefront of contemporary print media.
The Painting and Drawing major is an interdisciplinary track that provides students with the resources to explore a dynamic, individualized studio practice. Students begin by learning fundamental skills based upon representation, then expand their work by exploring a variety of materials and self-directed concepts. This major is designed to promote open-ended, introspective work characterized by engagement in critical discourse and the practice of contemporary art.
Students pursuing the Painting and Drawing track learn from professional artists who maintain active studio practices with significant depth of engagement and passion for the visual arts. This major focuses on preparing students for a sustainable studio practice and developing an understanding of their contextual awareness. Upon graduation, students are prepared to begin their careers as exhibiting artists who have the option to continue their education in graduate school, as well as teach at the college level.
The Art Academy’s large, well-equipped print media facility provides opportunities for students to express their creativity. Our print media major emphasizes traditional approaches invigorated by new technologies. Students are introduced to a full range of techniques, including monoprints, relief, lithography, intaglio, screen printing, letterpress, and book arts. Students employ both digital and manual approaches to making prints. Graduates in print media from Art Academy pursue a variety of career paths, including making prints at a cooperative press, working as a master printer in a professional print workshop, opening an independent press, screen printing at a professional design firm, and pursuing a graduate degree.
And that is just the beginning. By the time you graduate as a seasoned artist, you will have held exhibitions, learned about grants and residencies, and built an online portfolio of your work. We will help make sure that you are ready to go out and do great things with your craft!
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Upon graduation, students are prepared to creatively articulate, critically examine, and reinvent the world via the spoken and written word. They are prepared to do anything they put their minds to with depth and beauty and transformative strangeness.
