Behind the scenes of Painting 1, an intimate class of Art Majors work on their Conceptual Self-Portraits. Students built cradled panels in the Schaub Makerspace with consideration for the relationship between the form and the content of their work. Exciting shapes and materials emerged including binding tape, stickers, and thread. In preparation for the project, students did painting exercises painting themselves for 30 minute intervals from different angles and painting one another.

Digital Fabrication Art is a studio course that introduces students to digital fabrication methods as tools for contemporary artmaking. In the Illuminated Box project, students design and fabricate light-emitting objects using laser-cut acrylic and wood—exploring form, light diffusion, and structural assembly. For the Trophy Monument Project, conceptual maquettes function as small-scale monuments or symbolic trophies. Each piece was designed through laser cutting and assembled to express personal, social, or political meaning.

A project to challenge students to create a visually interesting abstraction with only color and typographic elements. Student work shown (left to right) by Anik Brown, Ally Staples, Ashton Gleed, Lina Morales, Mishelle Carasco, Ollie Rojowski, and Patrick Gannon.

Student coursework from 3D Design, a first-year course for all art and design majors.

You’ll develop your critical thinking skills early — in foundation classes that lend themselves to producing work that is both technically proficient and challenges conventional ideas of art.

Culminating project in the foundational course of typography in Graphic and Digital Design. Students create a poster for a film that doesn't exist.