B.F.A. in Painting
Savannah, USA
DURATION
180 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Introduction
At SCAD, you’ll gain the foundation to create your own enduring works of art while learning the entire palette of professional practice — from editing a portfolio to engaging a gallery. You'll join a network of talented students and alumni who exhibit at world-renowned museums — from the Guggenheim to the Museum of Modern Art to the Smithsonian — and share their work at the world's most prestigious art fairs. Throughout your time at SCAD, you'll be supported by outstanding faculty, inspiring facilities, and annual events that put SCAD at the heart of the fine art world...right where you belong.
Admissions
Curriculum
Foundation studies: 35 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
- DSGN 102 Design II: 3D Form in Space
- DRAW 200 Life Drawing I
General education: 60 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- ARTH 207 20th-century Art
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- Select one of these two options:
- PHIL 301 Aesthetics
- ARLH or ARTH elective
- PHIL 301 Aesthetics
- ARLH or ARTH elective
- ENGL elective
- General education elective
- Mathematics/natural sciences elective
Major curriculum: 75 hours
- PNTG 203 Oil-based Techniques and Exploration
- PNTG 206 Water-based Techniques and Exploration
- SFIN 220 Art of Tomorrow
- PNTG 302 Concept and Strategies: Developing Ideas
- PNTG 309 Abstraction: The Language of Paint
- SFIN 330 Digital Tools for Fine Arts
- Select one of these three options:
- PNTG 345 From Wall to Space: Extended Media
- PNTG 382 Painting the Scene: Visual Narrative and Mythmaking
- PNTG 386 Human Image: Capturing Identity and Essence
- PNTG 345 From Wall to Space: Extended Media
- PNTG 382 Painting the Scene: Visual Narrative and Mythmaking
- PNTG 386 Human Image: Capturing Identity and Essence
- SFIN 413 Business and Professional Practices for Fine Arts
- SFIN 415 Branding and Entrepreneurship for Fine Arts
- PNTG 470 Painting Senior Studio I: Concept to Audience
- PNTG 490 Painting Senior Studio II: Refining a Cohesive Body of Work
- Select one of these two options:
- SFIN 492 Exhibition Design as Practice
- SFIN 494 Collaboration and Production in Creative Industries
- SFIN 492 Exhibition Design as Practice
- SFIN 494 Collaboration and Production in Creative Industries
- Select one of these three options:
- PNTG 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- PNTG 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- PNTG or SFIN elective
- PNTG or SFIN elective
Additional electives: 15 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Career Opportunities
Become an art director. Become an art consultant. Become a painter. Paintings and works by SCAD alumni promote record-breaking blockbusters like Black Panther and are featured in films such as Gemini Man. Among other pioneering career paths, SCAD painting alumni exhibit at world-renowned museums and the world’s most prestigious art fairs, like Art Basel Miami Beach. They serve as art directors for publications, design directors for apparel companies, and experts in Hollywood scene setting and object manipulation.
Launch your career as a professional:
- Studio artist
- Curator
- Gallery owner/director
- Art critic/writer
- Film and television scenic designer
- Art director
- Digital artist
- Exhibition designer
- Museum preparator
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Acadiana Center for the Arts
- Adler & Co. Gallery
- American Craft Magazine
- Andy Warhol Museum
- Field Museum
- Glenstone Museum
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
- New American Paintings
- The Jepson Center for the Arts