The Masters of Fine Arts Program in Hunter College Inside Classsrooms
Use your art and design skills to limited yourself—and detect a greater purpose.
The Department of Fine art and Blueprint inspires students to shape the earth through objects and visual communication. Hither, we emphasize holistic inventiveness, helping students to grow in their inventiveness in deep and meaningful ways and so they tin go active contributors within the creative diversity of society outside the classroom.
Woven into this curriculum is a rich gallery program that brings many professional artists to campus for exhibition in our two galleries and for interactive artist talks. In improver, in that location are multiple opportunities each year for students to exhibit their own piece of work in the campus galleries, plus additional opportunities in exhibition spaces in the Twin Cities' all-encompassing art scene. Gallery assistantships, internships and Teaching Assistant opportunities are available to all students who seek them.
Majors, Minors, and Programs
| Art | Major | Minor | |
| Fine art History Minor | Small-scale | ||
| Art Therapy | Major | ||
| Available of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) | Major | ||
| Graphic Design | Major | Small | |
| Photojournalism Minor | Minor |
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Combining Creativity with Technical Skills
The Section of Art and Design offers majors and minors in art, fine art, graphic design, art therapy, photojournalism, and art history to help you shape the world through the media, method, and visual communication of your choosing. Nosotros teach each student the technical skills and processes needed for freedom of expression aslope the ideas, culture, fine art history and theory that make fine art and design meaningful vocations. No matter a student's specific discipline or major, we encourage engagement with materials and media of every kind, from bronze, paint, ink and clay to graphics, video and photography. Our numerous studio spaces and professional faculty offer students the support they need to engage in the creative experimentation that volition lead them to become successful emerging artists and designers.
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exhibits each year featured in our 2 on-campus galleries
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students take fine art + blueprint classes each semester
Program Highlights
Mentoring
You'll receive didactics and ane-on-ane mentoring from professional person artists every day. Our professors are all active and experienced artists and teachers that will come aslope you everyday to encourage you in your creative growth and help you detect direction.
Real-world experience
We believe in giving our students experiences that prepare them for their creative lives equally artists outside of the university. Throughout the year students take numerous opportunities to see professional artists, publicly exhibit their work in our Bethel galleries and in the Minneapolis art scene, receive faculty and peer feedback, and collaborate with kinesthesia on installations, inquiry publications and grants.
Career preparation
You can't automate creativity. Now, more than than ever, companies seek those with skills in the creative arts. Not but will our courses and the faculty that teach them give yous the artistic skills you need to succeed, we will teach y'all how to network, utilize for competitive internships, write grant proposals, and create your personal website.
Access well-equipped studios 7 days a week
The department has nine studios that art and pattern students tin access and use throughout the calendar week. Beyond that, during your senior twelvemonth every bit an art or design major, y'all will exist given your ain studio space, preparing you even farther for your artistic exercise outside the classroom.
The Art Section at Bethel was an incredibly formative identify for me. Yous'll observe kind and genuinely caring experts who will propel you forward in your artistic, spiritual, and professional journey and provide a unique, personalized experience.
Elise Valley '10
Current job: Pre-K Through Course 12 Fine art Teacher, Legacy Christian Academy
I transferred to Bethel and just fell in love. My professors had such a pregnant affect on my development equally a young, budding creative person. They came alongside me at the right fourth dimension in my life and didn't ease upwards until I got into the best graduate schoolhouse in the country.
Chris Larson '91
Associate Professor of Sculpture, University of Minnesota
Bethel University's Department of Fine art and Design not only gear up me up for success in my time to come career, it also acted equally a goad to develop intentional community I tin can participate in the balance of my life.
Eva Sedjo '16
Current chore: Behavior Wellness Specialist at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Eye
Subsequently graduation I interned at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, which turned into a job. I also had the opportunity to show in Vienna, Austria, because of an invitation from a professor.
Sarah Lee '12
Current job: Artist, Coordinator at Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Art professors go above and beyond for students open up to challenge as they pursue their art careers. Many Bethel alums are still agile in the art globe and have successful careers. We've developed a growing, active national alumni network.
Allison Peller '08
Current job: Curator, First Things Gallery, New York City
What tin I exercise with an art and/or design major?
Art and pattern students at Bethel are creative and visual thinkers, hands-on learners, and imaginative makers. No matter a student'south particular major, our curriculum offers a full suite of courses in studio arts, graphic design, fine art history, and art therapy. This allows students to fully explore their art interests and aggrandize their technical skills and creative expression as they progress through their called program. At graduation all of our students accept a wide range of skills that prepares them for success in many career fields.
Careers
Bethel art and design graduates work as:
- Animators
- Advertisers
- Architects
- Fine art directors
- Fine art historians
- Fine art therapists
- Artist or university educators
- Brand developers
- Community arts administrators
- Computer graphics and digital designer
- Craft artists
- Creative directors at various churches
- Artistic marketers for businesses and corporations
- Editorial designers
- Ecology designers
- Fashion designers
- Freelance graphic designers
- Illustrators
- Interior and article of furniture designers
- Curators and assistants at fine art museums and galleries
- Motion graphic designers
- Photographers
- Production managers and designers
- Professional studio artists
- Publishers
- Set and costume designers
- Transportation designers
- User interface designer
- User experience designers
- Video and film producers
- Spider web designers
Graduate Schools
Graduate schools our alumni have attended:
- Yale University
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Cranbrook Fine art University
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Pratt Found
- Claremont Graduate University
- Hunter Higher, NYC
- Prescott Higher
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Academy of Art, Vienna
- Goldsmith School of Visual Arts, London
- School of Visual Arts, NYC
- CalArts, LA
- The University of Barcelona
Source: https://www.bethel.edu/undergrad/academics/art/