About the Program
The Graduate Painting area provides students with individual studios and the ability to pursue the development of their painting in a concentrated fashion. The area is supported by: college galleries; a shop for wood, metal, and plastic; slide and book/periodical libraries and the seven other studio art disciplines.
Graduate Drawing is the cornerstone of the artistic experience. Our faculty see drawing both as a way to develop ideas for application in other media, and as an art form in itself. Students concentrating in drawing from our school are provided with skills applicable to a wide variety of professional careers, from the fine arts to the commercial. Individual studios are provided.
With separate but contiguous studios, the Printmaking area has over 4,500 total combined square feet for lithography, intaglio and relief printmaking including individual studios for graduate students. An experimental approach in the printmaking studio is encouraged and graduate students are expected to develop a high degree of technical competency in one or more of the major, traditional printmaking techniques.
The Sculpture faculty encourages students to build a strong technical and conceptual basis and working knowledge of contemporary art and issues to support their work. The Graduate Sculpture area provides individual studios and offers instruction in a variety of media: metal casting, metal fabrication, forging, plaster work, wood, found objects, fibers, clay, wax, etc.
Graduate study in Ceramic Sculpture is designed to promote advanced exploration in three-dimensional form using clay as the predominant fine arts medium. The Ceramics studio is housed in an area of approximately 5,000 square feet with separate 250 square feet individual studio spaces for graduate students.
Graduate students in Photography are encouraged to explore their personal relationship to photography and are expected to be intensely involved in both the technical and aesthetic aspects of the medium. In proximity to the photo studios are the new electronic media facilities. These combined facilities offer cutting-edge photographic opportunities making our program the one of choice for serious, aspiring professionals in the medium.
Merging art and technology, graduate students in Electronic Arts explore creative applications of computer animation, interactive art or any other extensions of the media arts. This program uses the DAAP Computer Graphics Center, a continually developing, multi-platform facility designed for the creation of computer generated work.
For more information check out UC's Electronic Arts website. Our two Full Time Electronic Arts faculty are extremely excited to show off some student work.
