- Creativity is essential in the arts and beyond. Expand your creative capacities and artistic skills while receiving an excellent liberal arts education. [Creativity & Innovation]
- Choose a path that fits your vision. The Visual Arts Program prepares students for careers as artists, graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and fabricators; as well as careers in education, business, galleries and museums [Program Competence]
- Making art is problem solving! Visual Arts students use digital and analog tools to realize their creative visions, from paintbrushes to 3D printers to digital design programs. Find creative solutions to complex problems to make great art and set yourself apart in the workforce. [Critical Thinking]
- Small classes, beautiful campus, close to home. The Visual Arts Program at Stockton offers classes with low student-teacher ratios and regular opportunities for one-on-one contact with faculty. Students working in our labs and studios form a creative community with easy access to faculty, whose offices are just across the hall. [Teamwork & Collaboration]
- Be prepared for the job market! Creativity is a highly valued trait in the workplace,linked to self-motivation and flexible problem solving. And a wide range of jobs in creative visual fields is expanding. Graduates of the Stockton Visual Arts Program have attended top-ranked graduate programs and gone on to successful careers as artists, designers, photographers, educators, and in museums and galleries around the county. [Adapting to Change]
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Visual Arts students have a wide range of opportunities to explore art and design outside the studio and classroom:
- Study abroad programs led by Visual Arts faculty.
- Regular trips to museums and galleries in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
- Visiting artists and other speakers each semester.
- Creative collaboration with nonprofit institutions through Design for Community Partners, a service-learning course.
- Internships in professional design and advertising firms, at museums and in artists’ studios.
- Student art clubs organize trips, service projects and collaborative art making.
FACILITIES
Students have access to studios for drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, graphic design and computer graphics, a digital fabrication lab, and a photographic darkroom. Extended hours allow students to access studios everyday, often with late closing times. The University Art Gallery hosts a variety of exhibitions throughout the year. Visit our facilities in the Arts and Sciences Building, designed by the famous American architect Michael Graves.