Multidisciplinary Fine Arts - Bachelor of Fine Arts

Lori Spencer
lspencer@uarts.edu
Fine Arts Chairperson
215-717-6065

Mara Adamitz Scrupe
mscrupe@uarts.edu
Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Coordinator
215-717-5495

Program Total Credits: 123

The mission of the Multidisciplinary Fine Arts program is to educate students to strike a balance in their art work and studies between the depth of concentrated study in a specific discipline grounded in traditional processes and historical perspectives and a breadth of multidisciplinary concepts and practices along with contemporary modes of presentation and expression.

Program Goals:

• Through projects and artworks produced in courses, students demonstrate an engagement with art ideas that spring from multiple creative practices that are artistic, scientific, industrial, and technological in focus.
• Students develop strategies for individual research that combine fields of research in diverse media toward the realization of artworks that are relevant in the larger world.
• Students develop skills and facilities in various media and disciplines that they then combine in multidisciplinary artworks.
• Students understand and apply readings, theories and methodologies toward the production of critically informed multidisciplinary artworks.
• Through individual and collaborative artworks produced in the program, students demonstrate the primacy of the role of the “idea” as the basis for multidisciplinary art practice.
• Individual student art practices demonstrate technical, creative, conceptual and expressive strategies for making art that are critically, aesthetically, philosophically, culturally, and historically informed.