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The Department of Visual Studies is offering a new BFA concentration entitled Visual Studies: Studio, which is an intensive studio program less structured than the other BFA concentrations. The student, in cooperation with faculty, will be able to create their own art concentration, based on a selection of 200, 300, and 400 level courses. This concentration parallels the state of current art practice in multi or hybrid media, and will support students interested in exploring the varied forms of media - from traditional to experimental - offered within the department.
An interdisciplinary Visual Studies studio BFA allows the serious studio practice art student to take courses across a range of studio concentrations and experiences. This BFA has an additional focus on visual studies courses and ideas, reflected in the program requirements. This concentration offers students the choice of an in-depth studio program without the restriction of a single media concentration.
This program will make it easier for students to take courses that they would like to pursue, but for which they would have no time within a one-media concentration program. The inclusion of visual studies classes is intended to give a student the opportunity to explore the field of theoretical study as it relates to art practice. This adds an additional component of contemporary art philosophy to a primarily studio program.
What is Visual Studies?
Visual artists and visual theorists have evolved towards a more diverse and hybrid form that is focused upon a broad integration of art practice with contemporary visual theory and art history. Current discussions of visual theory and aesthetic practice are referred to as Visual Studies, a manifestation of a new focus upon a nexus of concerns that will bring together art practice, study and researchFour Year Degree Plan
BFA
Visual Studies
