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B.A. Studio Art
Program Overview
The art department housed within the School of Art and Design fosters excellence, individuality and diversity while encouraging freedom of thought, imagination and honest, open inquiry in order to develop and expand students’ creative, intellectual and aesthetic development through its commitment to quality programs in studio art and graphic design. We focus on a one-on-one approach to develop each student’s artistic and expressive abilities with courses taught by professional artists/educators. All of our faculty members are practicing artists and historians who bring that knowledge to their individual classrooms.
We also give all students at High Point University the opportunities to explore their creativity and their artistic ideas in a wide range of classes including:
- Photography
- Digital Art
- Art History
- Ceramics
- Painting
- Drawing
A Focused Curriculum
Our art program is committed to developing students’ conceptual skills and technical knowledge in art through a solid foundation focusing on creative and critical analysis of practical, historical and theoretical knowledge crucial to the understanding of art.
The studio art degree emphasizes an observation-based approach with an exposure to a broad range of art media — from foundation level drawing and design to more advanced courses that examine aesthetics, history, criticism and studio practice.
The art department has numerous art studios, exhibition spaces and labs including:
- The Sechrest Gallery, with its renowned permanent collection of 18th through 21st century American and European Art, as well as rotating exhibitions of various contemporary artists
- The Deal Student Gallery with its rotating exhibitions of student art
- A Mac Digital Arts Lab with state-of-the-art hardware and equipment
- A fully equipped darkroom for photography
- Fully equipped 2-D and 3-D studios
The Art Department has adopted the following learning outcomes. Upon graduation, students with degrees from the Department of Art should possess:
- a developed visual sensitivity;
- technical skills, perceptual development, and understanding of principles of visual organization sufficient to achieve basic visual communication and expression in one or more media;
- ability to make workable connections between concept and media;
- familiarity with the works and intentions of major artists/designers and movements of the past and present, both in Western and non-Western worlds;
- an understanding of the nature of contemporary thinking on art and design, and have gained at least a rudimentary discernment of quality in design projects and works of art.
If you would like additional information or have questions about our program, please contact Diane Stenersen at artdesigninfo@highpoint.edu or 336-888-6355.
