The study of art encompasses the creation of visual objects and investigation into their social context, their past and their meaning in art history. With the various options for study available in our art program, you'll gain many opportunities to create and a thorough understanding of the creative process.
Overview
Our art department's creative spaces and opportunities, avenues for individual and group projects, professors with varied art backgrounds and several majors and minors offer many paths to fulfillment and future success.
By working with both studio and graphic arts, students are given opportunities to expand their artistic horizons, define and use current methodologies and firmly grasp the importance of their work in multiple aspects of modern society. Students and faculty boldly explore the tangible and the rhetorical dimensions of art.
Clubs including Arts Alive and Break Thru Design let you connect and collaborate with peers while developing additional portfolio pieces, while internships and co-op opportunities add to your professional qualifications.
We offer multiple studios specializing in ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, painting, photography and foundation design, plus woodshop and digital-imaging labs.
Program Options
BA Art Program and Tracks- The Art BA program allows you to specialize in the track of your choice and pursue a second major or minor that complements your career goals.
BFA Programs - For students seeking a demanding program with a high degree of focus, the BFA programs offer in-depth study. Students will develop a final body of work for their portfolio and as they prepare for graduation will have the opportunity to present their work at the BFA exhibition. The BFA is limited to select students chosen through an additional application process. BFA Application
Offerings in art history are particularly extensive for a college the size of Oswego. Students take a two-semester survey of art and may select upper-division courses in Twentieth-Century, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Native American arts; or Museum Studies. Students in museum studies and art history look for careers in institutions and archives.
Offerings include drawing, design, graphic design, web design, multimedia design, illustration, photography and printmaking.
The Illustration program includes the study of traditional, mixed, and digital media in 2 and 3D applications. In our program, students develop techniques and approach through a wide range of illustration projects designed to promote exploration across the field.
Interaction Design students explore the intersection of storytelling, technology, communication, and design. Study includes a combination of theory and practice that moves beyond the visual to explore all aspects of interaction and motion design.
Studio offerings include drawing, design, illustration, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and graphic design.
