In the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Columbia College you will find the tools, space, and inspiration needed to create a strong body of artwork. The BFA is a highly selective degree program intended for students who plan either to pursue a professional career in art or prepare for graduate school. Students have the opportunity to specialize in certain mediums such as Painting, Drawing, Ceramics, Photography, or Graphic Design. Interested students must apply by the fourth week of their junior year once 60 credit hours or more have been completed.
The culmination of the BFA program is a solo exhibition in one of our professional galleries. Upon being accepted into the BFA program, you will start creating, refining, and cultivating your body of work until your final exhibition.
Program Learning Outcomes:
- Apply the elements and principles of art and design to create visual information.
- Demonstrate fundamental studio practice with material/tool usage, safety, and creative methodologies.
- Demonstrate artistic techniques with knowledge of the traditional and contemporary practices.
- Choose processes and content to engage in substantive artistic activity.
- Present their artwork with basic understanding of professional practices and critical analysis of their own work and the work of others.
- Demonstrate an understanding of vocabulary and termanology relevant in the field.
Program CIP: 50.0701 - Art/Art Studies, General.
Program SOC: 27-1013 - Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
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