Studio Art (B.A.) Three-Dimensional Studies Concentration

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Studio Arts is designed to provide students with both breadth and depth. At the completion of their program art students demonstrate a knowledge of several areas of art and design along with one in depth area. Studio Art majors must maintain a 2.5 grade point average in their major to remain in the program.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates from Messiah’s Studio Art program can:

  1. Apply a basic knowledge of foundational design skills used for composing & evaluating visual arts.
  2. Understand of the relationship between the arts and other areas of study such as history, philosophy, religion, social sciences, and technology.
  3. Identify themes, historical time periods and cultural context of visual arts
  4. Analyze art and write in a clear and coherent fashion. Demonstrates an ability to research, process and write about the visual arts
  5. Compose and execute foundation level projects.
  6. Critique work using appropriate terms and concepts
  7. Apply emerging technologies to solving visual problems/projects
  8. Display mastery and depth in concentration area
  9. Present first-hand knowledge of working with professionals in their field
  10. Relate studio experience to employment possibilities.
  11. Apply skills in the service of not-for-profits and marginalized sectors of society.
  12. Display an incipient understanding of the historical and formal connections between Christianity and the visual arts.
  13. Articulate the relationship between faith and creative work.

Major Requirements

Complete the following for your major:

ART 110Visual Thinking and Digital Tools

3

ART 171Foundations of Drawing

3

ART 182Color and Design

3

ART 282Form, Space, and Media

3

ART 493Art Seminar

3

ART 494Senior Exhibit

3

ARTH 111Methods & Theories of Art History

3

ARTH xxx
Elective Art History (200 level or above)

3

Sophomore Review

ART 493: Fulfills Writing Enriched course requirement for major.

Three credits from the following:

ARTH 150Art History I: Ancient through Medieval Art

3

ARTH 151Art History II: Renaissance through Contemporary Art

3

Three credits from the following:

ARTH 209History of Modern Art

3

ARTH 309Contemporary Art: 1945 - Present

3

Three-Dimensional Concentration (15 credits)

ART 485Three-Dimensional Capstone

3

Select nine credits from three different processes:

Ceramics:
ART 220Ceramics I: Wheel Techniques

3

ART 221Ceramics I: Handbuilding

3

Fibers:
ART 224Dyeing, Printing, and Manipulating Fabric

3

ART 234Weaving Techniques

3

ART 334Wearable Art

3

Furniture:
ART 283Furniture Design

3

Installation:
ART 308Installation Art and Public Sculpture

3

Paper and Book Structures:
ART 136Paper Processes

3

Sculpture:
ART 262Construction and Assemblage

3

ART 263Carving

3

ART 364Casting

3

Three credits from the following or an additional sculpture or fibers course above:

ART 320Advanced Ceramics

3

ART 438Advanced Textile Processes

3

ART 462Advanced Sculpture

3

Cross-Concentration Studies (12 credits)

Six credits from Graphic Design and Digital Art:

ART 312Digital Imaging

3

AND

Three credits from the following:

ART 112Intro to Graphic Design

3

ART 236Graphic Design and Visual Culture: Seeing, Thinking, Making

3

ART 237Typography and Visual Communications

3

Six credits from two processes in the following 2-D courses:

Drawing:
ART 271Intermediate Drawing

3

OR

ART 372Figure Drawing

3

Painting:
ART 215Painting I

3

Photography:
ART 251Photography

3

Printmaking:
ART 232Screen Printing

3

ART 330Intaglio and Relief Printmaking

3

ART 332Lithography

3

QuEST Requirements

Experiential Learning requirement 0
QuEST requirements Credits
First Year Seminar 3
Oral Communication 3
Created and Called for Community (W) 3
Mathematical Sciences 3 or 4
Laboratory Science 3 or 4
Science, Technology & the World 3
Two of the following (6 credits total):
   Social Science
   European History
   United States History
6
Literature 3
Philosophy and Religion 3
Arts (ART course meeting QuEST) met/major
First Semester of Language 3
Second Semester of Language 3
Third Semester of Language or Cross Cultural 3
Non-Western Studies 2 or 3
Bible 3
Christian Beliefs 3
Wellness course 1
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism 3
QuEST requirements 51-54
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) 57
Free electives 15-12
Total credits 123