Painting Minor

The painting program provides students not only with a strong technical and creative foundation, but also with the opportunity to explore the endless number of paths the painting medium can lead an artist. It exposes students to the range and multiplicity of ideas that generate contemporary approaches to painting, to stimulate a full understanding of those concepts and to challenge students to develop a personal vocabulary of painterly forms and create a store of visual ideas relating to their own lives and experiences.

Within both Western and non-Western traditions, painting has a long history as a site of aesthetic experience and cultural questioning. This minor allows students to immerse themselves in painting, as well as developing a grasp of the critical issues surrounding it.

Degree Requirements

Foundational Courses:

ART 102Foundations: Drawing

4

ART 201Introduction to Painting

4

Total Credit Hours:8

Core courses; sixteen credits from the following:

ART 251Mixed-Media Painting

4

ART 252Experimental Painting

4

ART 350Figure Painting

4

ART 351Mixed Media Painting II

4

ART 352Experimental Painting II

4

ART 355Figure Painting II

4

ART 401Special Projects

1-6

ART 441Practicum: Assistantship

2

ART 450Advanced Painting Studio

4

Both ART 401 and ART 450 may be repeated for credit.

Total Credit Hours: 24