Painting/Drawing - Bachelor of Fine Arts

Program Total Credits: 123

Sharon Horvath
shorvath@uarts.edu
Coordinator
215-717-6495

The Painting/Drawing major provides a firm basis for students to develop a professional involvement with their work. A balance is sought between the acquisition of studio skills and the development of a critical intelligence.

Students are encouraged, through the rigor of studio activity, to understand the breadth of art in both its traditional and contemporary forms, and to gain increasing authority in their own work.

Courses evolve from the study of basic working methods and concepts to the refinements of personal vision and aesthetic judgment. In the final semester of the senior year, each student is required to complete a thesis project, which culminates in a formal presentation of a paper and an exhibition of a coordinated body of work.

The faculty of practicing professional artists represents a diversity of attitudes and ideals. Through the format of studio instruction, dialogue, and critique, they seek to instill in each student a habit of self-instruction, which will serve far beyond the program at the University.

The Painting/Drawing Department possesses its own gallery space where faculty, students, alumni, and invited artists have an opportunity to exhibit their work.

Studio activity is augmented by lectures, symposia, seminars, visiting artists, and field trips to museums and galleries.