Bachelor [Studio Art] From Linfield College

The department offers courses in foundations (AAVC 100, 101, 120), drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, alternative and electronic media, sculpture, ceramics, and ceramic sculpture. Regularly offered art history courses cover a range of topics including non-Western visual cultures, modern and postmodern art, and the history of photography. The department also has several non-traditional studio offerings, such as a course in alternative media, which deals with performance art, conceptual art and video. Additional studio offerings include electronic media and digital photography.

Students who successfully complete a major in studio art will:

• demonstrate technical skills in at least one studio medium;
• produce a coherent, cohesive body of work accompanied by an artist statement;
• create and present works of art through visual, verbal and oral means;
• develop research, analytical and critical skills; and
• demonstrate understanding of major trends in modern and contemporary art.