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and Digital Media/Graphic Design.The fine arts are emphasized as the foundation for all art careers.
Courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and digital media/graphic design are central to the department’s programs. The student, after exploring several areas, will do advanced work and his/her senior project in a chosen area of concentration, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, illustration, digital media/graphic design, photography, or a self-designed concentration.
Art majors may pursue programs leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree or the Bachelor of Arts degree,
and can achieve New York State provisional certification for teaching arts, K-12. Permanent certification may
be attained through the Master of Arts in Teaching Art program, which combines studio and education courses offered by the two departments.
For students who do not choose to major in art, the department offers the opportunity to study art
for the investigation of the aesthetic process and for its cultural value..
Students find that Manhattanville’s proximity to New York City, with its museums, galleries and art studios,
is convenient and stimulating. The city is a center for advertising, publishing, and printing,
and is the source of many job opportunities in these related fields. Placement in meaningful internships will
be encouraged.
Students exhibit their work throughout the college campus and in Brownson Gallery. Senior art majors exhibit their senior projects in solo shows.
The Studio Art Department values the process of collaboration in the development of young artists;
it works with the artist as an individual. We feel that the quality of process determines the quality
of the product. We instruct our students to develop a disciplined approach to their work while honoring their individual achievements as the subject matter of their artwork. Our students are taught that creativity and intelligence are compatible, and just as there is scientific research there is also aesthetic research…art is not simply about art; it includes the worlds that we are a part of, the worlds of the past, the worlds of the present and the worlds of the future. Art begins outside of the studio and is defined and refined in the studio.
In a more comprehensive semblance it is returned to the world and presented to the public.
The art facilities include studios for painting, design, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, photography, and digital media/graphic design. The ceramics studio is equipped with two Skutt Kilnmaster automatic kilns and five electric wheels. The print shop has two Brand printing presses, with large rollers for intaglio, and a Vandercook 219 proving press for type and letter press blocks. There is a digital media/graphic design facility equipped with MacIntosh G-5 computers, including individual state-of-the-art stations for each student. There are digital video cameras, printers, digital still cameras, and extra large format Epson printers. The recently renovated photography laboratory has all new color and black & white equipment, three dark rooms, 15 enlarger stations, developing, drying, and mounting equipment, 4 x 5 view cameras, and lighting studio.
Brownson Gallery
The Brownson Art Gallery provides exhibition space for professional and student exhibits.
An integral part of the art student’s experience at Manhattanville revolves around Brownson Gallery.
The Gallery brings in professional artists for solo and group exhibitions during the school year.
Past shows have included contemporary artists, such as Christo, printmakers from Egypt,
contemporary artists from India, as well as artists such as William Gropper, whose artwork comments
on political and social issues of the past. In conjunction with their exhibitions, many guest artists give lectures and workshops for the Manhattanville students.
Design and Photography
Professor Jim Frank
Student, Mei Fung Lai-Springer