A degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
"New Year" | Theo Beatty | MFA '24
A comprehensive education that fosters innovation, sustains tradition and explores interdisciplinary creative practice
Students earning their degree in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking develop formal and technical skills across a range of media while gaining a solid foundation in historical and contemporary practices and concepts. The curriculum is designed to reflect the plurality of contemporary art-making, including non-traditional materials, interdisciplinary processes and topics relevant to the issues facing our society today. Students experiment with materials, work collaboratively across disciplines and develop their own individual style to create a unique body of work.
Painting, Drawing and Printmaking students learn both traditional and contemporary approaches, exploring a broad range of media while engaging with concepts relevant to contemporary art practice. Students build specialized skills across a wide range of practices in dedicated facilities including six painting and drawing studios, intaglio, lithography, relief, screenprinting and book arts studios, as well as a digital lab. Students also have access to Pyracantha Press, a professional artist press and historical print archive.
Graduates leave with the technical, intellectual and professional skills necessary to pursue a career in the arts, including those for exhibiting and marketing their work.
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Visiting artists of national stature enhance the program with lectures and individual critiques each year. Students have the opportunity to exhibit their work in a variety of venues in the Phoenix Metropolitan area and take advantage of a wide array of internships in the larger art community. Numerous art and performing venues give students an opportunity to experience a plethora of art practice throughout the valley.