Program Description
The Department of Fine Arts provides a diversity of experiences in the visual arts:
- Art history/visual culture
- Ceramics
- Digital media
- Drawing
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
Strengths of the Program
- Learn from studio faculty who are practicing artists and scholars and exhibit regularly in the Northwest, nationally, and internationally.
- Art history faculty whose research engages relevant 21st century issues with an international breadth.
- The Forst Visiting Artist/Scholar Endowment brings diverse artists to the Pullman campus for various interactions with students each semester.
- Ongoing collaborations with the University's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, a top museum in the Northwest, including faculty exhibitions, MFA thesis exhibitions, and an exhibition studies minor.
- Undergraduate students manage one of the department's two galleries in Pullman and assist with the Art Center on the Tri-Cities campus.
- State-of-the-art facilities for metal and wood fabrication, ceramics, printmaking, black-and-white photography, and digital media.
Supplemental Pre-Professional tracks are available for students interested in pursuing further professional education. If there is interest in one of these tracks in addition to the degree, please let the recruiter know. The options are:
- Pre-Dentistry
- Pre-Law
- Pre-Medicine
- Pre-Nutrition & Exercise Physiology
- Pre-Occupational Therapy
- Pre-Optometry
- Pre-Pharmacy
- Pre-Physical Therapy
- Pre-Physician Assistant
- Pre-Speech & Hearing Sciences
- Pre-Veterinary Medicine
