Fine Artist Graduate Professor Licensed Art Design Educator

School of Art & Design

Vibrant. Illuminating. Empowering.

The School of Fine art & Design

We prepare artists, designers, historians, and educators to make a departure in broad areas of civilization, scholarship, and professional practice

Explore the spectrum of our degree programs

Fine art Pedagogy

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The Fine art Education Programme promotes the idea that fine art teaching is a lifelong creative practice. Our students are professionally prepared for educational activity careers in and out of schools, museums, customs sites, and through their ain artistic practice and scholarly work. We offering a BFA and MA path to obtain a pre-k to twelfth grade license for teaching art in Illinois and 46 other States. Our graduate students (MA, MEd, and PhD) become thought leaders at the intersections of educational activity, art, and inquiry; working as authors, curators, professors, activists, community organizers, and artists all over the earth.

Blueprint for Responsible Innovation

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Take your pattern skills to the next level and bring expertise from other disciplines into chat with design inquiry.

Graphic Blueprint

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Negotiate challenges at the intersection of traditional arts and crafts and rapidly evolving communication technologies to create positive change in today's social and cultural systems.

New Media

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New Media students pursue sustained study in the art forms of time-based media, performance, digital imaging, and coding-based practices.

Photography

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Nosotros prepare serious photographers to serve every bit cultural leaders of the 21st century. Our studios and seminars explore celebrated traditions, wide-ranging techniques, recent innovations, and the role of the contemporary photographer.

Sculpture

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Sculpture focuses on methods and concepts in 3-dimensional art, form-making, and expanded spatial practices.

A&D Minors

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Choose among four campus-approved minors.

Art HIstory

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Why are the objects that we call "works of art" fabricated? Who makes them? Who sees them? What functions do they serve? What kinds of meaning take they offered to viewers in the past? What kinds of meaning can they accept for us now? Questions like these are central to the study of fine art history.

Way

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Explore the broad and varied field of way, from history and social psychology to sustainable manufacturing and brand evolution.

Industrial Blueprint

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E'er wonder about why products look and work the way they do? From cell phones and computers to the microwave of the future, industrial designers discover the answers.

Painting

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Students brainstorm with rigorous instruction in traditional drawing and painting materials, methods, techniques, and concepts. Then they explore experimental and multi-disciplinary approaches to painting, as well equally its complex and culturally influential history.

Printmaking

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Printmaking offers a wide range of traditional, photographic, and digital printmaking methods that appoint with contemporary art and design fields. Specific courses focus on screenprint, letterpress, comics and 'zines, relief printing, intaglio, lithography, and other rotating special topics.

Studio Art

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Studio Art enables students to explore, combine, and specialize in an array of studio disciplines including way, new media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture,

Art Educational activity

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The Art Education Programme promotes the idea that art teaching is a lifelong artistic do. Our students are professionally prepared for teaching careers in and out of schools, museums, community sites, and through their own artistic exercise and scholarly piece of work. We offer a BFA and MA path to obtain a pre-k to 12th grade license for teaching fine art in Illinois and 46 other States. Our graduate students (MA, MEd, and PhD) get thought leaders at the intersections of teaching, art, and enquiry; working as authors, curators, professors, activists, community organizers, and artists all over the world.

Fine art HIstory

DEGREES

Why are the objects that nosotros telephone call "works of art" fabricated? Who makes them? Who sees them? What functions exercise they serve? What kinds of meaning have they offered to viewers in the by? What kinds of meaning can they have for us now? Questions like these are central to the written report of art history.