Department Head

Angela Dufresne

Graduate Program Director

Duane Slick

Graduates in the BFA program are prepared to:

demonstrate strong visual, verbal and technical skills.
recognize the interdependence of content and form.
appreciate context and physical properties vital to works of art not designed for reproduction.
demonstrate enhanced critical reasoning with broad historical overviews and social insight.
support intellectual and academic freedom.
deliver discerning critiques of their own work and that of others.
create new works of art.

Graduates in the MFA program are prepared to:

display an understanding of contemporary visual art.
demonstrate the intention, motivation and tools required to pursue a career as an artist and sustain a rigorous fine arts practice.
demonstrate the strong visual, verbal and technical skills needed to engage with cutting-edge discourse in contemporary art.
produce artwork that makes use of the interdependence between content, form, process and context.
appreciate the material qualities and physical aspects of works not intended exclusively for reproduction.
display an intimate familiarity with historical and contemporary approaches to visual art and their interrelationships.
demonstrate enhanced critical reasoning with broad historical overviews and social insight.
support intellectual and academic freedom.
deliver discerning critiques of their own work and that of others at a level appropriate to faculty in most collegiate visual arts programs.
individuate their approaches to visual artmaking and address self-defined research projects with distinct and challenging parameters.