In the Drawing & Painting program, you’ll learn to become a creative and engaged artist. You can concentrate on your painting studio skills and study art theory, history and contemporary social issues. You’ll learn to speak and write about your artwork in various formats. A wide variety of options for courses are available that focus in digital, landscape, figurative and abstract painting.

Your instructors will also encourage you to explore new forms of digital artmaking, installations, and experimental approaches to painting. Our instructors are professional artists who share their career advice and provide one-on-one, in-depth, feedback on your progress. You’ll have many opportunities to present your work professionally in public exhibitions.

Drawing & Painting admits first-year students directly into the program. Applicants selecting this major will have their portfolios reviewed by Drawing & Painting faculty for the limited number of spaces available for direct entry. Applicants not accepted for direct entry will be considered for the general, first-year program.

JOBS YOU CAN GET

Practicing artists

Curators

Cultural programming coordinators

Museum and gallery administrators

Illustration and mural artists

Art teachers

Arts administrators

Art conservators and restorers

Writers and critics

Studio managers

Arts advocacy officers

Artistic directors

• Digital Painting and Expanded Animation