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Department Head

Angela Dufresne

Graduate Program Director

Jackie Gendel

Programs

Learning Outcomes

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.