Program Overview

Program Overview

Our Art + Design B.F.A will challenge you to strengthen your creative voice as a designer or professional artist and to hone your visual-material problem-solving. In the Art + Design program, you will build professional, adaptable skills that will propel you into innovative careers. You will focus on developing your ideas and techniques with intensive faculty instruction, hands-on practice in the studio, and with real-world clients and service learning. You will become a strong, marketable visual thinker with opportunities in a wide variety of creative disciplines.

Degree Fit

This program could be a good fit if you:

• Have strong skills in art or design
• Work well with technology
• Are committed to your craft
• Have a creative, expressive, curious personality

Career Outcomes

With this degree, you could become a/an:

• Studio artist
• Digital photographer
• Advertising artist/designer
• Exhibition Designer
• Editorial Designer
• Editorial Illustrator
• Technical/Medical Illustrator
• Commercial Illustrator
• Web designer
• Art educator
• Art director
• Creative Director
• Creative Consultant
• Mural/public artist
• Printmaker/Screenprinter
• Packaging Designer
• Multimedia Design
• User Interface (UI) Designer
• User Experience (UX) Designer
• Experience Designer
• Concept Artist
• Cartoonist

Program Structure

The program features a year-long Senior Studio and exhibition of your personal work in your final semester. You will get a strong foundation in art and design practices before focusing on one of the areas of emphasis: Painting, Graphic Design, Sculpture, Printmaking, Interaction Design, or Experience Design, Ceramics, or Drawing.