Overview
Throughout your journey in the program, you will build an impressive professional art portfolio with your finest pieces. You’ll even have the privilege of presenting your own solo exhibition in the H. Williams Teaching Gallery.
Art Studio majors will also spend time learning traditional and current techniques and theories, as well as a solid background in global art history. You’ll develop a discerning eye for visual languages and complex themes.
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Program Details
CSP gives you the opportunity to dive into any discipline, including painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and even web design.
CSP features cutting-edge facilities for ceramics, photography, digital art, printmaking, sculpture, as well as painting and drawing. Art Studio majors have convenient and free access to those facilities during and outside of classes.
Your Art and Design professors at CSP are passionate creatives who are members of the local and national art community. Their goal is to help you unlock and fulfill your artistic potential.
After graduation, your path is your own. Our graduates excel in every artistic field from animation to graphic design and painting. Those who go on to earn their graduate degree in Fine Arts are also qualified to teach at a college level.
STUDENT OUTCOMES
CSP graduates are leaders and trailblazers. Meet some of our alumni below and see how they’re shaping the world.
Catherine Ries
History of Art and Visual Culture Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Meet Our Faculty
Our world-class faculty use their decades of experience to nurture your success from the first day of class all the way to graduation— and beyond.
