Art, Fine Arts & Graphic Design

Design is increasingly the deciding factor in today’s world of commerce. We seek and choose beauty—in products from DVD covers to toothbrushes to textiles to Web sites. In more and more cases, the fine arts of painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and drawing are not only in demand for gallery exhibitions, but for integration into commercial use as well.

Our Department of Art offers you all of the above disciplines, plus a state-of-the-art wireless MacIntosh lab housing 15 new Macs, printers, scanners, and digital cameras. Our talented faculty assist you in building a professional portfolio and acquiring internships at the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association, newspapers, book presses, nearby museums, and companies such as Disney and Six Flags. Graduates are employed in architectural firms, graphic design agencies, production firms, textile design companies, and book publishers.

The B.F.A. in art is offered in graphic design/illustration and in general fine arts and prepares students for careers in art or for graduate school. Art students often have the opportunity to showcase their work in the university’s M. Christina Geis Art Gallery. The B.A. in art is for those who plan to teach in elementary school, major in art history, concentrate on art and design, or become certified to teach art K–12.

Undergraduate Degrees B.A. in Art B.F.A. in Art Minors are available in all degree studies. Related Areas of Study American Studies Women’s Studies

Faculty Exhibit in S. Christina Geis Art Gallery (360 rotating panoramic view) Please be patient as file loads

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The major in art provides students with the opportunity to develop their inherent capacities and talents through a well-balanced program of theory and practice. In studio courses, students learn to express ideas in creative forms with a variety of media for their greater enrichment as human beings and for the acquisition of skills basic to further study and practice.

Through sequential courses in art history, students are led to a knowledge of great art movements, to a critical analysis of individual works, and to an understanding of the uniquely integrative nature of multicultural art study.

Students may work toward a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in art, art with an art and design concentration, or art with certification to teach.

Students interested in the commercial design professions elect the art and design concentration in addition to the art major requirements.

Students also have the option to work towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree with a studio arts concentration or graphic design/illustration concentration.

Those wishing to be certified to teach art are guided into the appropriate sequence of art and professional education courses. Students must satisfy all the New Jersey requirements, including the Praxis II, and student teaching.