Program Overview
This minor in Drawing and Painting enhances students' creativity, fine motor skills, memory, and imagination. Taught by accomplished artists, it provides hands-on learning, exploration, and critical thinking. Students can exhibit their work in reputable galleries and benefit from state-of-the-art facilities, improving their self-confidence and various artistic abilities.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This minor is designed to enhance students' creativity, coordination, fine motor skills, and imagination. It aims to strengthen memory through visual, semantic, and motor skills. The program encourages students to explore a wide range of contemporary and traditional painting and drawing practices, concepts, aesthetic conventions, methods, and techniques. The faculty emphasizes excellence as working artists and thoughtful teachers.
Teaching:
The program emphasizes hands-on learning and exploration. Faculty members are accomplished artists who are active and respected participants in the professional art world. They exhibit their artwork nationally and internationally.
Other:
- The program offers opportunities to exhibit work in the Paul Voertman Gallery and the Cora Stafford Gallery.
- The College of Visual Arts and Design is one of the nation's most comprehensive visual arts schools and is considered one of the best in the Southwest.
- The program provides access to multiple computer labs, a wood and sculpture workshop, and a fabrication lab.
- The minor in Drawing and Painting can increase self-confidence, improve concentration, motor skills, visual analysis abilities, and hand-eye coordination.
- The program offers a variety of courses, including:
- Beginning Drawing and Painting: Painting I (3 hrs)
- Foundations: Perception and Translation (3 hrs)
- Intermediate Drawing and Painting: Figure Drawing I (3 hrs)
- Intermediate Drawing and Painting: Figure Painting (3 hrs)
- Intermediate Drawing and Painting: Themes, Variations and Series (3 hrs)
- Intermediate Drawing and Painting: Experimental Approaches (3 hrs)
