18 Painting BA Degree Programs

Visual arts are the most ancient creative activities. The skills and talents of the artist are still in need today. RUFA teaches young people how to express themselves. They start from tradition while mastering contemporary techniques: painting, video, performance art, installations, and electronic art. The modern visual artist must be aware of history as well as of the times in which we live.

At SCAD, you’ll build a strong artistic foundation while mastering professional practices like portfolio editing and gallery engagement. Join a global network of artists exhibiting at the Guggenheim, MoMA, and the Smithsonian. With expert faculty, top-tier facilities, and premier art events, SCAD places you at the center of the fine art world.

The Illustration program at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) combines the traditional arts such as painting, drawing, and printmaking with the fascination of contemporary design using modern, digital techniques. Illustrations visualize complex content in newspapers, magazines, infographics, advertisements, posters, websites, and apps. They tell stories in picture books and comics and create entire films or virtual worlds in storyboards and concept art.

The Visual Arts Major offers a multidisciplinary education in the arts with advanced study in one specialization such as drawing and painting. To begin your studies, you can take courses in art history, art and technology, 3-D modeling and animation, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video.

ARTISTIC PRACTICE An introduction to painting and graphic design marks the beginning. In the further course, your artistic work and work development are in focus. The work results are critically discussed in the plenary. In the colloquia, you will practice constructively dealing with individual artistic goals. The artistic work is supported by workshop courses on painting techniques and printmaking methods.

Painting requires an inventive, open-ended approach to image making, perception, and communication. Painting allows one to experiment with the possibilities of light, depth, color relationships and composition in service to the medium. Students of painting will learn how to use materials to the best of their ability in addition to insightfully addressing content in their work.

This course equips you with a range of practical theatre craft skills including prop making, scenery building and scenic painting. Skills that will enable you to pursue a career in theatre, film, television, museum displays, and themed attractions. This course will develop your prop making, scenery construction and scenic painting skills.

Make your dream of a creative life come true. Whether you prefer the challenges of mastering innovative digital media or the joys of traditional painting and printmaking, or a mixed methods, our art major supports you.

Majors work towards the development of a cohesive body of work that demonstrates a distinctive personal style. The program emphasizes the mastery of a broad range of fundamental skills, with a focused experience in one technique or medium. Majors are well versed in historical and contemporary art and are given numerous opportunities to exhibit their work, travel, and receive feedback from faculty and peers.

Visual arts are a necessary and vital part of contemporary society. The Louisiana Christian University Art Department trains students to have a positive Christian impact on society by providing a serious study of the visual arts in all its forms and contexts so that they may more fully dialogue with the professional art world. A series of studio, lecture, and seminar courses provide a learning environment for students which nurtures their technical and philosophical skills in a distinctively Christian and academically rigorous environment. These studies develop the aptitudes within students which prepare them for either graduate school or entering directly into the art and design marketplace.

MCAD’s Drawing and Painting major challenges perception by exploring and reimagining what is possible. Grounded in a rigorous exploration of materials and techniques, students hone their artistic voice through critiques, engagement with guest artists, and collaboration with a creative community of makers and thinkers.

Develop your very own, personalized art degree with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's studio art bachelor's degree. This growing program is an excellent fit for multitalented individuals and explorative artists who are looking to find and build on their passions.

Learning will be conducted through lectures, teaching workshops, seminars, group critiques, self-directed learning, peer group learning, written work, presentations, group work, library and gallery study. You have open access to generously sized studio spaces throughout the three years of the degree.

This degree is offered by the School of Fine Arts that is committed to creating an intersection between educational activity and the various professional industries connected with the disciplines. You can develop your creative skills and study the practice of visual and digital arts with an Art and Design degree. Subjects include Animation, Digital Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interior Design and Product Design.

You want to make things and make a difference. As a Studio Art major, you’ll learn to think critically, act creatively, and produce works of art that address the most pressing issues in contemporary culture. Studio Art unleashes your expressive self while connecting to the world and others. You have arrived at the epicenter of the global art community.