Studio Art Painting - Drake University

Studio Art Painting from Drake University is a Campus Bachelor Painting degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. PROGRAM OVERVIEW The Department of Art and Design will help you develop your artistic and intellectual potential, explore new areas and discover career opportunities. Drake offers you both intensive experiences in art and a solid liberal arts education. You will be immersed in a professional art and design environment, develop consummate technical skills and achieve formalistic and conceptual abilities in preparation for a rewarding visual arts career. As an art or design major at Drake, you will receive individual attention from your faculty adviser and other professors - all professional designers, artists and scholars - who are passionate about their fields and their teaching. Classes are small, generally ranging in size from 10 to 20 students. Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Studio Art This degree recognizes that many students want an art and design degree in combination with concentrated course work in an academic field. Individualized academic goals can be achieved while students earn their emphasis in painting . Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Studio Art This degree is for students who wish to enter an intensive studio art program or continue their education at the graduate level. Professional skills and a personal aesthetic philosophy are achieved by students with an emphasis in painting. Students must possess an exceptionally strong commitment to their work. The comprehensive art curriculum is enhanced with a variety of individualized choices from the Drake Curriculum. REQUIREMENTS FOR MAJOR Art and design students begin with the fundamentals in drawing, design and art history, which are essential to any chosen area of study. These courses will challenge students to develop basic artistic skills as they learn about career opportunities in the visual arts. Painting (BA/BFA) The painting emphasis fosters creativity in ways that lead to significant artistic expression. Students are mentored in the development of critical visual thinking skills necessary to the development of a highly individualized aesthetic. Technical skills are honed in a process-based environment designed to facilitate a diversity of investigative methods. At advanced stages students are encouraged to both embrace and test the traditions of painting through the deliberate synthesis of materials, methods and ideas. View more details on Drake University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Painting courses.