Art - Briar Cliff University

Art from Briar Cliff University is a Campus Bachelor Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Department of Art pursues an approach to the visual fine arts that focuses on the development of the individual creating artist. The mission of the Department of Art is to prepare artistically competent and liberally educated individuals. Students will develop their intellectual abilities and technical skills through studio production, art history courses and critical theory seminars. Students may prepare for careers as a practicing artist, an elementary or secondary art teacher, or continue with advanced graduate study for careers in studio art, art therapy, architecture or arts administration. The Department of Art teaches the studio areas of drawing, design, painting, sculpture, mixed media and pottery; the history of art from ancient through modern; and art theory and criticism. Art Education methods courses are offered for the elementary and secondary art education student. The student begins their artistic development with the foundations of drawing, design, art history and theory. This is followed by a progressive studio experience which is individualized for the purpose of developing each student's core sensibility. The studio experience is based on a sequence of seven courses, during which the student progresses from an elemental stage of artistic thinking and forming to one in which they are able to comprehend the current aesthetic issues in the visual arts and produce and defend their own innovative forms, culminating in a final thesis work. This studio sequence begins with initial ideas, models and studies, and progresses to completed works which demonstrate facility in media and techniques. Direction and criticism is provided at all levels of development. This process supports the needs of each student as they pursue their own creative and artistic direction. The media selected for each project is determined by the needs of the form; the student has the freedom at all levels of the studio experience to employ methods and materials that are relevant to their concepts and ideas. The major studio experience begins in the second term of the sophomore year and culminates with the Thesis course in the senior year, which includes the production of a thesis and a senior exhibit. Upon graduation, students majoring in art will be able to produce basic visual forms, use an electronic image portfolio of their works upon graduation, understand the history of western art , understand and apply media and techniques as an integral component of their art works, develop an understanding of contemporary and avant-garde issues in art , encounter critical and historical works of art, independently produce critical, creative and personal works of art using appropriate media and techniques, relate their work to critical theories and art history and pursue professional and career options in art such as graduate study in painting, sculpture, museum studies, architecture, teaching and/or pursue areas of special interest. View more details on Briar Cliff University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.