Fine Art
Columbia College Chicago offers a four-year Fine Art program leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The program is centered on the individual student's artistic growth and self-definition. An emphasis on historical tradition and new ideas in contemporary art expands students' perceptual reach and aesthetic awareness. By engaging critical thinking, exploration, and experimentation, the program helps students discover and examine the world through art. Fine Art students study ideas, art works, and learn about artists through slides, lectures, and practical application. Students learn to rely on their personal experience and encounters as sources for concept development and visual form.
The Fine Art major at Columbia begins with the Core Foundation Curriculum required of all Art + Design majors. The following year is spent in the Fine Art Foundation, which is comprised of the four Contemporary Issues classes in New Media, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The final two years of the program allow the student to choose more specific areas of investigation. The program is designed to develop well-rounded students who are keenly aware of their resources and options for aesthetic expression and who can make conceptual and aesthetic decisions that reflect our society as a whole. The strength of the program rests in diversity, including traditional approaches to art making as well as new media, its low student-teacher ratio, state-of-the art facilities, and an exceptional faculty that is dedicated to the growth of each student. Students completing the BFA in Fine Art will be prepared for application to graduate programs both nationally and internationally, as well as for the establishment of a productive studio practice.
The Fine Art major at Columbia begins with the Core Foundation Curriculum required of all Art + Design majors. The following year is spent in the Fine Art Foundation, which is comprised of the four Contemporary Issues classes in New Media, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The final two years of the program allow the student to choose more specific areas of investigation. The program is designed to develop well-rounded students who are keenly aware of their resources and options for aesthetic expression and who can make conceptual and aesthetic decisions that reflect our society as a whole. The strength of the program rests in diversity, including traditional approaches to art making as well as new media, its low student-teacher ratio, state-of-the art facilities, and an exceptional faculty that is dedicated to the growth of each student. Students completing the BFA in Fine Art will be prepared for application to graduate programs both nationally and internationally, as well as for the establishment of a productive studio practice.