The study of art encompasses the creation of visual objects and investigation into their social context, their past and their meaning in art history. With the various options for study available in our art program, you'll gain many opportunities to create and a thorough understanding of the creative process.
Overview
Our art department's creative spaces and opportunities, avenues for individual and group projects, professors with varied art backgrounds and several majors and minors offer many paths to fulfillment and future success.
By working with both studio and graphic arts, students are given opportunities to expand their artistic horizons, define and use current methodologies and firmly grasp the importance of their work in multiple aspects of modern society. Students and faculty boldly explore the tangible and the rhetorical dimensions of art.
Clubs including Arts Alive and Break Thru Design let you connect and collaborate with peers while developing additional portfolio pieces, while internships and co-op opportunities add to your professional qualifications.
We offer multiple studios specializing in ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, painting, photography and foundation design, plus woodshop and digital-imaging labs.
Bachelor of Art Tracks
Curriculum
BA Program and Tracks
Our BA degree allows you to specialize in the track of your choice and pursue a second major or minor that complements your career goals.
BFA Programs
For students seeking a demanding program with a high degree of focus, the BFA offers in-depth study of either studio art in the fine arts or illustration tracks, graphic design or interaction design. The BFA is limited to select students chosen through an additional application process. BFA Application
Bachelor of Arts - Graphic Design Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design Bachelor of Arts - Interaction Design Bachelor of Fine Arts - Interaction Design Bachelor of Fine Arts - Studio Art Bachelor of Arts - Studio Art and Illustration
Tyler Art Gallery
The recently renovated Tyler Art Gallery allows students the opportunity to exhibit their work, and in some cases gain experience curating and installing their own show. The gallery on campus is just one place students may showcase their work, Oswego keeps a very active schedule for students to present at Oswego State Downtown and SUNY Oswego in Syracuse.
Outcomes
- Create a portfolio to present at interviews
- Gain familiarity with the works and intentions of major artists/designers and movements of the past and the present, both in the Western and non-Western worlds
- Develop ease of presenting work and discussing intentions and execution
- Attain ability to analyze works of art/design and critically evaluate them
- Build technical skills, perceptual awareness- and understanding of visual organization principles
Career Opportunities
BFA Career Opportunities can include:
- Fine Artist
- Art Director
- Photographer
- Illustrator
- Graphic Designer
- Concept Artist
- Museum Professional
- Art Historian
BA Career Opportunities can include:
- Gallery Worker
- Art Critic
- Museum Educator
- Photographer
- Illustrator
The art department prepared me to transition into the real world. I have had amazing opportunities to present my art and meet artists working in the field.
