Visual Arts (BA)

The curriculum is designed for students to develop a variety of creative and technical skills that will serve them professionally. Collaboration across projects and learning in classrooms with students in all the program areas of the Department of Art and Design ensures the cross-critical thinking that is prevalent in today’s creative and design fields.

Visual Arts (BA) | CurriculumDownload the 4-Year Plan for Visual Arts

You will study with our outstanding faculty and interact with world-renowned visiting artists and designers, who mentor our art and design students each semester.

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Visual Arts FacultyAll Art and Design Faculty
Guest Artists:
Art and Design Forum 

The Department of Art and Design occupies several on-campus buildings, housing fully-equipped studios for all studio areas.

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All Studio Facilities

Throughout their course of study, student artists create work using a variety of media and techniques, including ceramics, drawing, metalwork & jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Student work is regularly exhibited on campus.

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Visual Arts BA Thesis Exhibition: ISIII/Finishing Touches

Artists with degrees in Visual Arts pursue many paths to find outlets for their creativity. Those wishing to teach at the college level or advance their education in the arts go on to graduate school. Others embark immediately on careers as professional artists, opening studios where they develop work for exhibition.

Successful artists are often adventurous and entrepreneurial in spirit, supporting their art-making careers with parallel work. Artists often work as teachers in community programs or as administrators in galleries, museums, arts organizations or schools.  Others work as studio assistants or apprentices to established professional artists. Some pursue art history degrees and become critics, curators, art publishers or historians. Studio artists are often commissioned — or receive grant support — for special projects including portraiture, illustration work, public sculpture, billboard art or mural installations. Others find work as art framers, space designers or in the fields of decorative and crafts arts.

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Professional Development – Resources and Links
Career Services

Montclair State University’s art and design programs are among the region’s most competitive, and meet the rigorous standards of the National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD).