• The University’s sequential curriculum provides students with the highly developed skills and knowledge necessary for a professional visual arts career in drawing, design, painting, illustration, art history, mixed media, computer programs and web design.
  • Students in the program begin with the fundamentals of drawing, design and art history.
  • As students master visual language and its vocabulary, they progress to color theory, figure drawing and painting, relying on principles they learned in their foundation year.
  • Students are introduced to illustration and web design while continuing studies in painting.
  • Exploration of aesthetic approaches, ideas and cultural themes in student work is integral to the studio art program. 
  • The culmination of the studio art program is a capstone class in which students create a professional body of work that will be exhibited at the university.
  • This exhibition is an artistic statement of the students’ education and contributes to professional portfolios to utilize in the pursuit of exhibiting professionally.