绘画，绘画和版画致力于当代问题的视觉探索。该区域支持各种各样的工作室实践和兴趣。通过提供BFA集中课程以及为学校中其他学科和学位提供支持课程，它致力于促进文化对话，提高视觉素养并鼓励个人认知，主动性和艺术决策的发展。BFA绘画和绘画重点课程提供许多传统和探索性绘画和绘画方法的课程，包括生活绘画，绘画研究，水基媒体，油基媒体和各种精选主题课程。绘画素描指导研究是一个高级实验室，用于在工作室教室环境中开发更具个性的作品。
The Drawing and Painting concentration hosts diverse media-specific and conceptually focused classes, dedicated classroom studios and a projectcritique space. A stylistically diverse faculty offers courses in specific media and material content—oil-based, water-based, life drawing, digital possibilities—as well as concept-driven courses such as “Figure as Content,” “Sound and Radio,” “Anthropocene Studies,” “Research Methodologies,” “Maps and Messages,” “Science Art” and more. Philosophically, the faculty engender a range of visual expression, media experimentation, social practice and conceptual art—all grounded in traditional technical training.Faculty areas of expertise include classical drawing, mixed-media, collage, video, sound, animation, trompe l’oeil ultra realist and abstract painting, sculpture and installation. A range of international travel programs have been hosted by area faculty and student internships are supported by faculty.