Interdisciplinary Studio Art (VIBA) is a general studio arts degree in the Visual Arts with flexible course selection. The one-semester capstone (Senior Project) culminates in a project portfolio developed by the individual student.
Studio Art, a concentration in the BFA in Visual Arts, focuses on traditional and interdisciplinary artmaking, allowing students to emphasize painting, printmaking, or sculpture.
Painting at Stockton embraces everything from historical methods in oil to a variety of contemporary media. Coursework varies considerably: in observational courses, students paint the lakes and woods of the Galloway campus, along with the figure and numerous traditional subjects. Other courses emphasize possibilities with material experimentation, abstraction, and personal thematic exploration. Students in painting develop critical thinking abilities, problem-solving, and visual thinking that have taken them into a variety of creative fields.
Printmaking is an artistic process that allows artists to make multiple original works of art by transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. Printmaking techniques include intaglio, lithography, relief, and silkscreen.
Sculpture is the creation of art in three-dimensional space. Sculpture can include almost any medium, any process, and any form. A figure modeled, carved in marble is sculpture, but so is a room filled with motor oil, or a life-sized whale skeleton made of plastic lawn chairs. As a result, sculpture students are invited to experiment with a wide range of materials, explore a wide range of working methods, and discover an approach that works for them.
