“工作室艺术”课程侧重于学生在当今艺术界创造独特声音所需的技术和概念技能。我们的顺序课程为学生提供高度发展的技能和知识，包括绘画，设计，绘画，插图，艺术史，混合媒体，计算机程序和网页设计，这是视觉艺术专业职业所必需的。该课程的学生从绘画，设计和艺术史的基础知识入手。当学生掌握视觉语言及其词汇时，他们将依靠在基础课程中学到的概念和原理学习色彩理论，人物素描和绘画。在继续学习绘画的过程中，他们被介绍给插图和网页设计。在开始探索工作中的美学方法，思想和文化主题时，学生将继续发展自己的技能。
Express yourself and impact the world through art. Give voice to thoughts and feelings through creative, expressive work. Use that work to affect communities and individuals around the world. The Art and Design department prepares students to become artists and designers who are knowledgeable, educated, compassionate and responsive to social and civic obligations in an ever-changing world. Sacred Heart's ideal locationnear New York City and within the world-class design community of Fairfield Countyprovides students with unprecedented support and inspiration. Internships and a career-launching senior portfolio night give students the experience and connections to find continued success in art.<br>Our sequential curriculum provides students with the highly developed skills and knowledge necessary for a professional visual arts career in drawing, design, painting, illustration, art history, mixed media, computer programs and web design. Students in the program begin with the fundamentals of drawing, design and art history. As students master visual language and its vocabulary, they progress to color theory, figure drawing and painting, relying on principles they learned in their foundation year. Students are introduced to illustration and web design while continuing studies in painting. Exploration of aesthetic approaches, ideas and cultural themes in student work is integral to the studio art program. <br><br>The culmination of the studio art program is a capstone class in which students create a professional body of work that will be exhibited at the university. This exhibition is an artistic statement of the students education and contributes to professional portfolios to utilize in the pursuit of exhibiting professionally.