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ART EDUCATION
Art Education allows students to become licensed to teach K-12 art in Illinois public schools, engage in a broad and critical intellectual exploration of contemporary questions and debates in arts and education, and undertake advanced professional preparation for teaching and curriculum supervision.
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
ART HISTORY
Why are the objects that we call “works of art” made? Who makes them? Who sees them? What functions do they serve? What kinds of meaning have they offered to viewers in the past? What kinds of meaning can they have for us now? Questions like these are central to the study of art history.
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Faithful Oladeji
DESIGN FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION
Take your design skills to the next level and bring expertise from other disciplines into conversation with design research in order to explore responsible futures through traditional media and emergent technologies.
Faithful Oladeji
Graduate Degrees
BA in Studio Art
The BA in Studio Art (BASA) degree allows for maximum flexibilty with course work and skill development across the various disciplines in the studio arts program. This elective-based degree is intended for those students looking for a degree in visual art practice along with equally rigorous study in areas outside of the School of Art & Design. When compared to our BFASA degree concentrations, you’ll see that the BASA requires fewer studio courses with more general elective options, allowing for maximum customization based on student interests.
Undergraduate
FASHION
Explore the wide and varied field of fashion, from history and social psychology to sustainable manufacturing and brand development.
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Matthew Waldinger
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Negotiate challenges at the intersection of traditional craft and rapidly evolving communication technologies to create positive change in today’s social and cultural systems.
Matthew Waldinger
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Sebastian Holt
ILLUSTRATION
Create the imagery that brings stories to life. Illustrators use their talents to visualize worlds and invent characters that vividly imagine other places, times, and realities.
Sebastian Holt
Undergraduate Degrees
Kaito Choy
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Ever wonder about why products look and work the way they do? From cell phones and computers to the microwave of the future, industrial designers find—and make—the answers.
Kaito Choy
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Daniel Harmon
NEW MEDIA
New Media students pursue sustained study in the art forms of time-based media, performance, digital imaging, and coding-based practices.
Daniel Harmon
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Paul Kenneth
PAINTING
Begin with rigorous instruction in traditional drawing and painting materials, methods, techniques, and concepts. Then explore experimental and multi-disciplinary approaches to painting, as well as its complex and culturally influential history.
Paul Kenneth
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Laura Today
PHOTOGRAPHY
We prepare serious photographers to serve as cultural leaders of the 21st century. Our studios and seminars explore historic traditions, wide-ranging techniques, recent innovations, and the role of the contemporary photographer.
Laura Today
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
PRINTMAKING
Printmaking offers a wide range of traditional, photographic, and digital printmaking methods that engage with contemporary art and design fields. Specific courses focus on screenprint, letterpress, comics and ‘zines, relief printing, intaglio, lithography, and other rotating special topics.
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Stephen Signa Aviles
SCULPTURE
Sculpture focuses on methods and concepts in three-dimensional art, form-making, and expanded spatial practices. Materials and methods used in sculpture may include clay, plaster, wood, metal, plastics, fibers, found objects, casting, carving, digital outputs, welding, and other additive and subtractive fabrication processes.
Stephen Signa Aviles
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
A concentration in interdisciplinary practice enables students to explore, combine, and specialize in an array of studio disciplines including fashion, new media, painting, photography, printmaking, illustration, and sculpture. Interdisciplinary Practice offers a student-initiated path through a variety of studio art methods and course offerings. This concentration is meant for those students who want to develop multiple approaches to making art, rather than focusing on a singular discipline or medium.
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
MINORS
The School offers four campus-approved minors.