At a Glance
- Students receive hands-on, in-depth studio training in digital and film photography and video.
- A highly individualized education experience, tailored to prepare students for success in the photography field.
- Students gain valuable experience through internships, connecting with professionals in the field, and mounting and exhibiting in the gallery in Reisman Hall.
The Studio Art: Fine Art Photography program produces artists who are technical masters, creative problem-solvers and professionally prepared for careers in art and photography.
Through a studio-based art curriculum and a foundation in the liberal arts, students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program will explore all forms of lens-based media including digital and film photography, Photoshop manipulation, alternative processes, studio lighting, video editing and large format photography.
Interdisciplinary courses enable students to inform their photographic practice with a knowledge of art history, visual culture, drawing, design, color theory and sculpture.
Dedicated, professional faculty mentor students through a highly-individualized education tailored to each student’s artistic and academic goals, preparing them for careers in the art world as exhibiting artists, photo educators and multimedia specialists or at fine-art related institutions such as museums, galleries and studios or to pursue graduate work and earn a master’s degree in the arts.
Claire Oreskovich
Class of 2019
"This internship definitely prepared me for what I want to do … a National Geographic style photographer."
Meet The Faculty
Kim Waale,
M.F.A.
- Program Director, Commercial & Fine Art Photography
- Division Chair, Art & Design
- Professor, Art
