Art - Indiana State University

Art from Indiana State University is a Campus Master Study of Art degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. INTRODUCTION The graduate programs of the Department of Art are designed to prepare students for professional practice in the art disciplines served by their respective creative fields. The master of fine arts (M.F.A.) and master of arts (M.A.) degrees are recognized and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and by the College Art Association of America. The programs of the Department of Art are conducted in over 60,000 square feet of professionally organized and well-equipped space. The Fine Arts Building houses departmental offices, the graphic design and computer graphics studios, and classrooms; Art Annex, a vast factory-like space, houses ceramics, sculpture, and sculpture?wood/sculpture furniture; and the studios for painting, photography, printmaking, papermaking, and drawing are in Fairbanks Hall. The graduate painting studio is located just off campus. The department conducts a regular schedule of exhibitions in the University Art Gallery and the Bare-Montgomery Student Gallery. An exemplary program of visiting artists and scholars enriches the curriculum. In addition, the Indiana State University Permanent Art Collection contains a significant inventory of twentieth-century artworks in all media. GENERAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The graduate degree programs are offered with emphases in the following areas: ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture-metal, and sculpture-wood/studio furniture. The programs are open and flexible enough to allow students to pursue studies that are suitable to their area. Career counseling, advanced instruction, and research consultation are provided in programs that are especially designed to satisfy the needs and expectations of each individual student. The objective of each area of emphasis is to develop the professional technical knowledge and expertise relevant to the emphasis that would allow graduates to perform well in a professional milieu. Further, the M.F.A. Program strives to develop in the student creative, experimental, and independent qualities, as well as an appropriately professional aesthetic. Traditionally, the M.A. is intended to meet the needs of those students who do not choose to develop their professional studio skills to the terminal level. Many graduates have used this degree to pave the way for entry into the job market, particularly for those positions in which a terminal degree is neither demanded nor desired. The M.F.A. degree is pursued by students who desire a program that is more studio-intensive and offers the professional standard of a terminal art degree. MAIN OBJECTIVES The graduate programs of the Department of Art are directed toward developing broad and versatile creative abilities in the student. The curricula of the department are designed to provide the student with a sequence of experiences that challenges the student and provides meaningful content. The objective is to foster the student's development of intellectual, communicative, formal, and technical knowledge. The goals of the graduate program within the Department of Art are: to deliver a suitably professional, quality education by bringing graduate students across the threshold of accomplishments within the studio; to develop in the student creative, experimental, and independent qualities, and an appropriately professional aesthetic; to provide those students who wish to teach at the university level with the knowledge of, and practice in, the visual arts; to provide varied and flexible pedagogic techniques and expertise in varied technical procedures in the visual arts; and to extend to the community and other constituents beyond the community, assistance and leadership consistent with the various areas of expertise within the Department of Art . View more details on Indiana State University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Study of Art courses.