Coursework is designed to enable students to develop the formal and technical skills required to create balanced pictorial compositions with an emphasis on conceptual and material exploration. Students explore the relationship of painting and drawing to contemporary art practice through the examination of its role within visual culture and the digital domain. Students are encouraged to integrate their personal interests and working methods across disciplines which include printmaking, sculpture, fibers, digital, and time-based processes. Painting and drawing faculty are dedicated to helping each student develop their own personal perspective and direction while encouraging research, experimentation, and challenging established notions of studio practice. Students will also consider the logistics of maintaining an art practice beyond graduation by developing a portfolio to reflect their abilities as illustrators, designers, concept and storyboard artists, museum and gallery assistants, preparators, and archivists. ​