工作室艺术

Studio art is a degree for developing the best practices of contemporary artists and designers. Students in the 三个 media concentrations join for a two-semester interdisciplinary studio to develop group projects and a body of work and a senior seminar on professional practices for artists such as creating presentation materials and writing grants and artist’s statements. Students in graphic design take a senior seminar on professional practices and develop a portfolio to show prospective employers and clients.

Program Requirements 部门 of 艺术 艺术 奖学金

Program Highlights

• Kiehle Visual 艺术s Center houses ceramics, wet-based photography and printmaking; large studio classrooms for painting, 画, 雕塑, and art education; student studios; a woodshop; a metal shop; and several large computer labs and a digital project lab that support graphic design, digital photography, video, and multimedia.
• 教师是 established artists as well as teachers with work exhibited and selected for collections across the country including the Minneapolis Institute of 艺术s, Walker 艺术 Center, Museum of 艺术s and Design in New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and Cain Schulte Gallery in San Francisco.
• 访问ing 艺术ists, Designers, and 策展人s Program, annually invites 三个 or four national arts professionals such as Nicholas Brown, a curator from Yale; Michelle Grabner, Chicago artist and co-curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial; and Mark Randall, New York graphic designer to lead workshops and meet with students one-on-one to discuss their work.
• Student-run Gallery Vault in downtown St. Cloud provides exhibit space for student artists and develops art-centered events that connect the university and the St. Cloud community.

Program Distinctions

• Kiehle Gallery exhibits the work of innovative regional artists and designers who discuss their work during openings and hosts the annual juried student art show, curated by a Twin-Cities arts professional.
• 1 of 7 colleges, schools, and universities in Minnesota 认证 由 National Association of 学校 of 艺术 and Design.
• 教师 includes two Fulbright fellows,五 McKnight fellows, 三个 Bush fellows, 和一个 Joan Mitchell Foundation fellow.
• Notable alumni: TyRuben Ellingson '81 '82 is a conceptual designer who has worked with film directors such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, 乔治。卢卡斯, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo Del Toro and the late Stanley Kubrick. Valerie Snobeck '03, named by arts writer Elisa Carmichael as one of 25 artists to watch in 2013, exhibited as part of Whitney Biennial, a show of new American art at Whitney Museum of American 艺术 in New York City. 

University Facts & 统计数据

• 92% of studio arts graduates employed

• $106 million in scholarships loans and grants

• 90+ nations represented on campus

• 39 Education Abroad programs offered

• Among Forbes' "America's Top Colleges"