Program Overview
The Painting + Drawing Area at this university offers graduate students a cutting-edge art training experience, encouraging experimentation and exploration in various mediums. Students benefit from private studio spaces and are supported in their pursuit of professional careers in the art field, with notable alumni including Jim Dine and Jenny Holzer.
Program Outline
Teaching:
The Painting + Drawing Area is committed to cutting-edge professional art training within the context of a liberal arts university. Graduate students are encouraged to experiment with a wide range of technical and theoretical interests, from figuration to abstraction, and on to digital media, installations and performance. All graduate students have private studio spaces in the Ridges facility.
Careers:
Our students regularly go on to receive Fulbright Awards, national artist-in-residencies, gallery representation, university teaching positions and other types of professional positions in the field as post-graduates. Several well known artists have come from our school including Jim Dine and Jenny Holzer. Recent activity of our painting alumni includes Beth Campbell’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Frank Oriti’s inclusion in an exhibit at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery in London, UK.
