The Photography Program is a fluid investigation into visual literacy focusing on the creative possibilities of lens-based imaging. Beginning with the introductory course, students create work that combines concept and technique with an awareness of contemporary art theory. Emphasis is placed on the student's personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development. This rigorous education in contemporary artistic and cultural practices, accompanied by classes in photographic history, enables students to develop a critical understanding of how photographic practices form and reflect our world.
The photography area welcomes an interdisciplinary approach to the medium and the possibilities of a content-driven incorporation of video, film, sound, performance, and installation. The incorporation of such parallel academic pursuits as literature, politics, psychology, and philosophy is encouraged.
Successful progress through this undergraduate program requires a firm commitment to work intensively at the highest levels of creative and intellectual capacity. Self-discipline is crucial; standards of achievement are high. Studio practice is reinforced by extensive library holdings and one of the largest collections of fine-arts photographs in any university art museum. The photography faculty are a diverse and accomplished group encompassing a wide range of artistic practice; students have the opportunity to work closely with them. Facilities include digital classrooms, computer labs, and state-of-the-art digital output as well as darkrooms for film processing and both silver-based and non-silver printing. Advanced students have access to lighting equipment, medium format and view cameras, and DSLRs.
The Photography Program is an integrated curriculum where both traditional darkroom photography and digital imaging can be achieved. Students will start in Beginning Photography by learning traditional photography using film and printing in the darkroom. In the 300 and 400 level courses both traditional and digital methods of photography will be investigated. The students will need to have a film camera at the beginning level and should have a digital camera at the intermediate and advanced level courses. Both types of cameras need to have the capabilities to be set manually. (No point and shoot cameras).
The UAA Photography Program has a large group darkroom equipped with sixteen Beseler MXT 4x5 enlargers with Beseler Dichro 45S Colorheads. This gives the students the capability to use 35mm. 21/4, and 4x5 format negatives and can print up to 16”x20” prints in both black and white or color. The lab facility also has six individual color darkrooms with 4x5 enlargers and three film loading closets. A Thermophot ACP 502 is used to produce RA color prints. The lab has a four person film developing sink area with temperature controlled water. A large Regal / Arkay print washer and two other 11x14 archival washers. There is a large print mounting table with two Roto-trim cutters, 2- 16x20 dry-mount presses, 1- 20x24 dry-mount press and a bevel edge matte cutter. The photo check out office has all the necessary accessories for darkroom printing. It also has 2 MAC Pros and 1 G5 Macintosh computers all with 23" LCD monitors and with peripheral scanning and printing capabilities. Photo students also have access to the Computer Arts Lab to work digitally.
The UAA Lighting Studio is well equipped with a nine foot studio stand, long-arm boom, light control frames and fabric, Matthews C stands, a backdrop wall with muslin or paper backdrops, a copystand, a flat copy shooting wall, tripods, and many other lighting accessories. Tungsten and strobes are used in the studio along with a Broncolor location lighting kit. Students use their own camera for most of the instruction in the lighting studio but at an advanced level a Toyo 4x5 CX and CF camera are available for use. There is also a computer workstation with a Epson 7500 printer.
The Photography Program also owns a Nikon D1X Digital Camera and a Canon XL1 video camera which can be checked out by advanced students. Overall, UAA’s Photography Program is a well equipped state of the art facility.
The School of Art & Design (A&D) has the good fortune to be among the 19 schools and colleges at the University of Michigan, a world-renowned research university. One of the youngest academic units on campus, A&D’s reach and influence have steadily grown since being established as an independent unit in 1974.
A&D’s current academic programs and projects focus on generating new creative work, integrating the cultures of art and design, and engaging with the University, region, and national and international communities. Exemplary faculty and staff and a commitment to joint academic programs and joint faculty appointments with units on campus and state-of-the-art facilities support these objectives.
The study of photography can be applied in a range of professions, including commercial studio work, photo editing in publications, working with photography collections in museums, and teaching at the high school or college level. The photography program at UTA was established in 1971. The curriculum is carefully designed to prepare students to enter a career or a graduate program with a strong portfolio and the needed technical skills. The rapid shift to digital technologies in the past few years has resulted in profound changes in the methods that we use to capture images and produce prints. The faculty has embraced the digital world while maintaining a strong commitment to traditional methods. We believe that the best photographers are able to produce images to communicate and express ideas. The program offers great diversity of curriculum, approach and technology. We have complete facilities for both ‘wet’ darkroom processing and digital work.
The five full-time faculty in photography represent a wide range of expertise and experience in the field. All faculty are exhibiting artists, have vast professional experience and come from a national base of graduate study. Students are encouraged to work with all faculty throughout their studies. The intermediate photo course is our ‘gateway’ upper level course, providing the foundation for all advanced classes. The advanced classes are devoted to specific technical skills and the development of personal expression into a visual statement. We schedule a portfolio review for each student at least twice during their studies, attended by the photography faculty and any other faculty in the Department invited by the student.
Randolph Community College, a member institution of the North Carolina Community College System, is a public, two-year, comprehensive, community college established to serve the citizens of Randolph County. The College began operation in 1962 as a joint city-county industrial education center under the direction of the Trades and Industrial Division, Department of Vocational Education. The North Carolina legislature in 1963 established a separate system of community colleges and the College became part of that system.
Housed in a 1940's factory building at the end of Bennett Street in Atlanta, Portfolio Center is a highly renowned school with an enormous heart. During your 2 year program, you'll create and conceive the impossible every day. Whatever your discipline, we're big on ideas, branding, innovation, strategy, communications & storytelling. We live in a world that changes at light-speed and desperately needs dynamic, creative individuals to chronicle the adventures. Welcome to Most-Likely-To-Succeed .
The MFA in Photography at Georgia State University is concerned with teaching students to think and work as professional artists.
The Graduate Photography Program provides a critical and conceptual grounding for students as they independently pursue their studio practice. The weekly seminar serves as the backbone of the program. Critical theory is stressed while critique forms the basis for dialogue about ongoing work. Students are encouraged to look beyond established photographic conventions and to push their work in new directions. Creative investigation across disciplines is avidly supported and results in students working in mixed media, video, digital, installation, performance, and conventional photographic print media. Guest critics and guest artists are invited to final critiques to supplement the expertise of the faculty. Students are given the opportunity to teach foundation and introductory photography courses and to work in photography and digital labs so they may gain necessary skills for a profession in teaching, should they choose.
The primary objective of the graduate program is to provide students with the analytical and critical tools to effectively shape their own practices once leaving the program.
Visit our visual art studios and exhibitions and there will be no question as to why Atlanta Magazine named Pace Academy one of the Best Schools for the Arts. Our outstanding faculty members are talented artists in their own right and love sharing their skills and knowledge with our eager students. From ROYGBIV to Senior Advanced Studio Art, Pace artists thrive at every level.
The Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts educator in the state of Georgia, with a network of programs that reaches over 300,000 students in over 70 counties each year. Together, the four Woodruff Arts Center partners - Alliance Theatre, Arts for Learning, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and High Museum of Art – create arts-infused educational experiences for students from 18 months old all the way to adult, both in schools and on the Woodruff Arts Center campus.
MICA's major in photography exposes students to the full range of photography as a fine art. Students learn black and white printing and experiment with non-traditional processes, mastering the large format camera and utilizing the latest in digital imaging technology. A wide variety of courses broadens their aesthetic understanding and technical skills, preparing them for careers in photography.
Core classes in black and white, color,and digital photography, and the history of photography provide students with a basic foundation of essential knowledge and skills. Students can take four open studio electives from any discipline along with seven photography electives. Photography classes--which include Advanced Digital, Studio Lighting, Narrative Strategies, Large Format, and Alternative Processes--all deal with both the technical and conceptual aspects of the medium. Advisors help student to plan a program of electives that best meets their needs and goals.
J210 News Photography and J213 Advanced Documentary Photography are taught every semester, as well as a workshop-oriented class that gives students practical experience shooting and and composting photo essays.
Artists at Kala are encouraged to produce innovative artwork of the highest quality, and are given total freedom to realize their artistic vision using media that span the Gutenberg to digital eras. Artists are also provided with a number of professional development opportunities, and a spirit of exchange and education is nurtured through artist involvement in exhibitions, special events, lectures, teaching, and classroom experience. Additionally, Kala is committed to offering quality art education to the general public and public school children through its on-site program of classes and workshops and its Artists-in-Schools program, established in 1991, providing multiple-week artist-led instruction to students in East Bay public schools and summer programs.
The Photography Department at Cranbrook cultivates artists to practice in a manner that is both non-traditional and interdisciplinary. Critical discussions originate from issues in contemporary photography that are inspired by documentary, tableau, or performative practices. Using these dialogues as a starting point, we look to historic as well as contemporary works to assess the direction of the medium. We evaluate production value, content and its formal translation, and the nature of practice as we establish models of critique and production that can be sustained beyond the academy and into the profession.
At the MFA program in photography at Cranbrook, approximately 15 students work closely with their artist-in-residence to find their subject matter, explore the function of form, and produce a refined and sustainable practice that generates artworks. In addition to regularly scheduled group critiques, the artist-in-residence engages the students in individual meetings and assigned readings. Part of the curriculum is generated by the students as they are expected to do field and literary research throughout their tenure at Cranbrook. Each student shares her field and literary research with her peers by conducting a seminar in which she leads her cohort through a field trip and selected readings. The program is supplemented by regular visits from outside artists and critics.
Continuing a tradition of leadership in photographic education, the program in Photography at Indiana University offers an opportunity for talented and committed individuals to advance their photographic work in an environment of intensive interaction with a select group of peers. The study in Photography balances a central insight and verbal articulation. The program goes about these objectives in a combination of ways. Graduate students are given fully furnished individual darkrooms in the recently remodeled Photography area. The Photography program is supplemented by a series of visiting artists. In the past few years, Jonathan Green, Joel-Peter Witkin, Emmet Gowin, Tony Medoza, Bea Nettles, Jerry Uelsmann, Carrie Mae Weems, Andres Serrano, and Manual among others, have worked with graduate students.
The MassArt Photography Program teaches photography as a medium of self-expression. Our emphasis is on personal vision, experimentation, and an understanding of the history of photography and the body of criticism that surrounds it. Students are introduced to a wide variety of necessary tools and become well-versed in the medium's technical and aesthetic traditions, as well as the contemporary directions of photography. Our curriculum covers analog and digital production, providing a strong foundation for a career in photographic arts.
A highly respected group of artists form the core faculty of the department, including Barbara Bosworth, Matthew Connors, Eirik Johnson, Bille Mandle, Laura McPhee, Abelardo Morell (emeritus), and Nicholas Nixon. Their efforts are augmented by a remarkable group of visiting professors including Anna Collette, Christine Collins, Frank Gohlke, David Hilliard, Shellburne Thurber, Keitaro Yoshioka and others. Our studios are expertly managed by Steve Tourlentes and Galen Palmer. We are proud of our diverse and well-recognized faculty and staff, many of whom have received Guggenheim fellowships, and publish and exhibit frequently.
Our location in Boston makes it possible for students to attend a wide array of exhibitions of contemporary and historical photography and to visit artists and curators who work in the area. Visiting artists are an integral part of the program, and the department has a strong visiting artists and critics lecture series. Recent visitors have included Walead Beshty, Dawoud Bey, Elinor Carucci, Charlotte Cotton, William Christenberry, Gregory Crewdson, Lois Conner, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Doug Dubois, Emmet Gowin, Judith Joy Ross, Luc Sante, Paul Shambroom, Jem Southam, and Penelope Umbrico.
Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices (IMAP) encompasses photo imaging, video, digital, sound, performance and related approaches to technology based art. This area embraces critical art practice from analog to digital, historical to cutting edge and everything in between. Photography is an internationally renowned, progressive, future-oriented and coordinated graduate and undergraduate discipline that emphasizes the development of creative work, experimental research and teaching. The discipline conducts a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary cultural discourse. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. There is a strong emphasis on crossdisciplinary exploration.
The discipline provides a thorough grounding in traditional media as well as ample opportunities to explore new media forms and techniques in conjunction with historical photographic processes. Interaction with other areas in the department and across the campus promotes interdisciplinary studies. There is a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging students to question and expand the boundaries of the medium.
A vigorous art history component, supported by one of the finest photography book collections in the world, is required. Courses in all aspects of photography, alternative processes, video, digital media, Internet art installation and performance, bookmaking, desktop and online publishing, and new media theory are available to optimize personal growth, skills acquisition, and creative expression. Faculty show their art work internationally, including recent shows at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, and Videobrasil and have been recipients of major fellowships including NEA & Guggenheim.
At the MSU School of Film and Photography, students learn by doing. That's why the program has a reputation for turning students into working professionals who have a strong hands-on orientation that values putting theory into practice. Graduates leave with the skills and experience necessary to become successful visual storytellers.
The Department of Photography is committed to the education of artist and professionals. The curriculum is designed to create a broad-based knowledge of photography from traditional photographic techniques to the digital darkroom, including aesthetics, history, and artistic and professional practice. The student moves from a highly structured program in the sophomore year to a more self-determined program in the senior year. The program culminates in an individual exhibition as well as a senior group show at a gallery in DUMBO, a center of contemporary art in New York City. Students leave Pratt having had the experience of curating, hanging, and promoting their own exhibit, in addition to a finished portfolio of their work. This approach is intended to facilitate the transition from student to independent artist/professional.
The goal of the BFA Photography program is to challenge students intellectually, artistically, and technically, in order to graduate with the skills necessary for a rich and rewarding career. First year undergraduate Photography majors dive right into the field with unique and intensive Photography Foundation year courses. The first-year Photography curriculum introduces you to critical, conceptual, historical, and technical studies. Classes also lay the groundwork for further exploration of traditional and new media in commercial studio, documentary, photojournalism, and fine art photography.
The Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is constantly redefining the medium of photography. Our distinguished faculty and eclectic curriculum encourage you to experiment in your work. Our multifaceted approach to the medium includes traditional forms of image making and conceptually oriented practices and makes the SAIC Photography program uniquely diverse.
As a student in the Photography department, you will:
Explore the practice and theory of photography
Practice your art in a supportive, nonhierarchical community among faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students.
Work with state-of-the-art equipment and enjoy access to all the resources of the school.
Columbia College Chicago guides aspiring fine art photographers through a stylistically diverse MFA program in Photography that emphasizes aesthetic and conceptual development alongside innovative photographic technique. Through advanced coursework in graduate photography, MFA students will become immersed in a curriculum grounded in art history and theory and invested in the critical dialogue on contemporary photography. In three years of focused study, students pursuing the MFA in Photography will develop a sophisticated body of work, an understanding of the theoretical perspectives that support that work, and the necessary tools of professional practice as a photographer, accelerating their careers as working artists.
The Photography program's wide breadth of traditional and cutting-edge processes is unique to the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Students learn about 35mm, digital, medium-and large-format cameras, black and white printing, digital output, color shooting, experimental photography and digital video. They have the opportunity (also unique to AAC) to link photographic theory and practice to other artistic disciplines.
The major provides a blend of theoretical and real-world instruction that enables students to build careers as commercial photographers, professional artists, photojournalists, and in other disciplines. Many graduates move on to grad school or pursue careers in the gallery or museum world.
The Lightborne Visiting Artist Program is unique to the Photography Major at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Each year the Art Academy and the Cincinnati Art Museum invites two international artists to work with students and give a public lecture. In the fall, an emerging photographer is invited for a two-week Artist-in-Residence program. Artists have included Elinor Carucci (www.elinorcarucci.com), Todd Hido (www.toddhido.com) and Hank Willis Thomas (www.hankwillisthomas.com). The students work with the artist during a three-day workshop, benifit from one-on-one critiques and install an exhibition of the photographer's art in the Art Academy Gallery. In the spring, an international artist is invited for a three day visit, where they perform group and one-on-one critiques with students, as well as give a public lecture. Former artists are Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand (www.thomasdemand.de) and Doug Aitken (www.dougaitkenworkshop.com).
The Cleveland Institute of Art is an independent college of art and design committed to leadership and vision in all forms of visual arts education. Since 1882, we have have won widespread acclaim for the quality of our programs and achievements of our alumni. Students are encouraged to explore their vision and develop their skills through an interdisciplinary curriculum.
Focus on either Photographic or Video Arts as you develop a distinct vision, learn to communicate effectively, and immerse yourself in a creative, collaborative environment. In CIA’s Photography major, coursework will expose you to rich and varied techniques and aesthetics essential to photography, video, and digital cinema. You’ll learn how to refine and communicate your artistic vision through lectures, demonstrations, assignments, critiques, and group or one-on-one discussions with instructors and visiting artists. In the process, you’ll gain knowledge of photographic theory and contemporary practices.
Our organization is a non-profit community darkroom, educational center, studio workspace, and photographic gallery located in the Quadrangle arts district in the St. Clair/Superior neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Housed on the first floor of the historic ArtCraft Building, Cleveland Print Room offers a place to process 20th century emulsion-based film and analog photography collectively with others who share a passion for the photographic arts. Since photography is a huge part of everyday life, we have a shared desire to partner with the photographic community, the arts community, and the education community.
Our programs include educational workshops and classes in photographic arts with a focus on using outdated photographic processes, along with exploring interesting modes of analog processing. We offer affordable community darkroom services, studio workspace and exhibition opportunities for students, amateurs, and professional photographers. We will offer summer youth programs, a lecture series hosting local and nationally recognized photographers and archivists, and in the future an artist residency program offering darkroom facilities, studio workspace and exhibition space for visiting photographers.
Whatever your artistic interest and whatever your age or skill level, we have classes to drive your passions at the Fine Arts Center’s Bemis School of Art, a year-round facility. Experienced artists and art instructors, large studios and limited class size create a motivational and supportive environment to explore your creative potential.
In today’s image-driven environment, capturing life from behind a camera can lead you almost anywhere: lighting, styling, retouching/editing, designing, experimenting, documenting, manipulating, processing, and teaching. The Photography major will prepare you to navigate the full range of commercial and fine art photography—able to move seamlessly between cutting-edge digital tools and classic darkroom work. Whether working with platinum prints or interactive multimedia, the overriding emphasis is the development of your individual voice and vision.
The Photography Department offers a curriculum that prepares students for employment in the expanding and ever changing photographic profession. In addition to teaching job skills the program develops the creative and critical thinking potential of students. The program also offers those already employed in the photographic profession opportunities to update both technical and esthetics skills. These courses guide students toward transfer to four-year institutions, associate degrees, vocational training, and certificate opportunities for lifelong learning.
The Photography program is a prelude to engaging with the professional photography world after graduation. In the 21st Century, that world requires both traditional and digital expertise. Consequently, emphasis is placed not only on the development of a personal photographic vision encompassing professional aesthetic standards, but also on mastering contemporary imaging techniques.
The primary goals and objectives of each level in the program revolve around the development of a portfolio of images within a fine arts framework that reveals individual style, technical excellence and aesthetic sophistication, in addition to continuously deepening the understanding of expressive communication.
Students are expected to participate in individual and group critiques, lectures and reviews. Verbal and written competence is required in regard to examining, analyzing and understanding photographic imagery in all contexts.
Courses in general consist of labs, lectures, guest lecturers, discussions, slide presentations, papers and readings on a variety of photographic topics, including professional and ethical issues.
In addition to the Photo Track of six consecutive courses, the History of Photography course establishes the artistic and technological progression of the field from its invention to current practices, while the Studio Photography course explores large format photography and studio lighting. The senior year leads to a final portfolio and a gallery exhibition.
Mission:
The Photography Program is committed to providing a course of study that affirms and nurtures the creative spirit of each individual and provides the aesthetic, technical and intellectual skills necessary as a foundation for a wide variety of professional careers or advanced studies. A major goal of the faculty, as practicing photographers and scholars, is to impart an understanding of the lifelong vitality of artistic development and practice.
Description:
The program provides students with comprehensive aesthetic, technical and theoretical training within a wide range of photographic practices and imaging technologies. Successful completion of the AS Degree in Photographic Technology ensures a seamless transfer to the University of Central Florida Photography BS Degree program. The joint program between University of Central Florida and Daytona State College is offered exclusively at UCF Daytona Beach.
Outcomes:
Graduates of the program will be able to:
1. Develop entry-level skills for the editorial, advertising, fine art and photo technology fields or they may continue their photographic education through the DSC/UCF Photography BS Degree program.
As a student in the Bachelor of Fine Art in Commercial Photography program, you will learn to create compelling photographs and develop a strong visual aesthetic. Using pointed and comprehensive coursework centered on meeting the needs of clients, this program prepares students for commercial photography and photojournalism/documentary careers. Students emerge from this program with the technical, creative, business, and ethical skills necessary to thrive in the professional marketplace.
Through project assignments and research, you will acquire the communication skills necessary to meet with clients, establish an understanding of their business product and marketing strategy, and meet the client’s photographic needs using your unique photographic abilities. You can choose an emphasis in commercial photography or photojournalism/documentary. The emphasis in commercial photography focuses on the conceptual, practical and aesthetic applications of commercial photography, while the photojournalism/documentary emphasis examines the relationship between photography, news agencies and clients.
The Art League of Long Island offers over 200 classes and workshops each quarter. We offer classes in Drawing & Painting, Watercolor, Printmaking, Pastel, Sculpture, Jewelry, Ceramics, Computer Graphics, Photography, Decorative Arts, as well as, Ongoing Open Studios and more for Adults, Teens, and Children. Our classes are conveniently offered in the morning, afternoon and evening and are available to all levels of experience: beginners through advanced. We also offer special Adult/Child Partner Classes, Workshops, and Tours.
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University offers courses through three main programs: undergraduate education, a Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts, and continuing education. Courses include instruction in photography, audio, film/video, , narrative writing, and new media along with an examination of documentary traditions, practices, and ethics.
Documentary work is creative and artistic, driven by personal motivations and talents; it is also a public process of engagement and a powerful tool for communication and for fostering understanding and change. In its approach to education, CDS emphasizes documentary fieldwork, collaborative partnerships, and a balance between individual artistic expression and community goals.
The Associate of Arts in Photography provides students an in-depth study into the practice and critical discourse of photography, photographic seeing and lens-based culture as a visual document of creative expression and communication. The fundamentals of analog and digital photography are set within a series of foundation, intermediate and advanced courses which reference the rich history of the medium as well as contemporary practice, providing students the opportunity to define his or her path whether it is transfer, career development and/or personal enrichment.
Capital Photography Center was created by Marie Joabar who for more than a decade was the Education Programs Manager and Corporate Trainer at Penn Camera, one of Washington D.C.’s long standing photography retailers.
Marie developed that company’s educational program growing it from three topics in 2003, to almost 50 in 2011, and earned it the reputation of having the area’s largest selection of classes with the widest variety of topics.
With more than 10 years of experience offering classes, it was a logical choice to open Capital Photography Center to continue offering amateurs, hobbyists, and professionals the opportunity to learn about the areas of photography suited to their interests and tailored to their level of experience.
The instructor list boasts some of the area’s best instructors; Eliot Cohen, former Program Head of Photography at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) Loudoun Campus, Chris Alvanas, Director of Photography at Center for Digital Imaging Arts – Boston University, E. David Luria, founder of the Washington Photo Safari and Karen Messick, Award winning professional photographer just to name a few.
Our NASAD-accredited Art & Design Program combines the intimacy and individual attention of a small school with the depth and diversity of ambitious study abroad opportunities, offering a unique and rewarding college experience.
Photography concentrates on the practice of photography as a fine art – a means personal expression. Students explore photographic materials and practices in order to create challenging and stimulating images. Through extensive studio critiques students and faculty discuss aesthetic choices and possibilities to make the most effective work possible.
Technical competence is vital to this process of artistic growth. The curriculum provides a solid technical foundation on which to develop a student’s ideas. Students learn and explore conventional and non-traditional approaches to photographic image-making.
Classes include basic and advanced black and white, digital, color, lighting and alternative processes.Students also take Advanced Studio Sequence photography classes to develop technical and conceptual mastery in their creative work as well as develop professional artist’s skills.As in other studio areas, the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Photography culminates in the Capstone Project Senior Exhibition.
The school promotes an interdisciplinary approach. Students are encouraged investigate photography’s historical and contemporary relationships with other disciplines, theory and culture. This awareness fosters critical thinking and studio critique skills, which ultimately generates more informed, intelligent, and nuanced artistic production.
Students at The Art Institute of Indianapolis can learn digital photography through the Digital Photography program. Individuals who want to learn digital photography are creative, imaginative, and detail oriented. To properly learn digital photography, instructors stress hands-on learning. Students have an opportunity to learn digital photography using industry-related technology and equipment. Because digital photographers work with a diverse subject matter and many types of people, students can learn digital photography best while working in teams. Part of how they learn digital photography at The Art Institute of Indianapolis also includes an emphasis on communication and business skills.
The Art Institute of Indianapolis offers a Digital Photography degree program for creative, imaginative students. As they pursue a Digital Photography degree, students can learn technical and design skills. As they learn digital photography, students have an opportunity to take courses on topics like lighting, photojournalism, and darkroom techniques. Instructors bring their real-world industry experience into the classroom to help students learn digital photography. Graduates of the program are prepared to pursue entry-level jobs like photographer, studio photographer, and catalog photographer. The Art Institute of Indianapolis also offers a bachelor’s level Digital Photography Degree program where students can learn digital photography.
As a member of the photography program you will explore aesthetic and conceptual perspectives of photography with students who are working in diverse areas of personal image-making. You will join a department that is recognized as among the best in the country. The program is active in darkroom and lightroom production and provides strong grounding in professional lighting, and you will work extensively to develop your digital and Photoshop skills.
A preeminent faculty of educators who are exploring, producing and exhibiting their art nationally and internationally will provide you with current practical information, aesthetic knowledge and professional skills.
You will be exposed to all modes of contemporary fine art photographic practice, including narrative, landscape, portrait, documentary and expanded photographic works, including installations and emerging relationships between the still and moving image. The elective program is developed in conjunction with core curriculum instruction to provide a variety of methods for you to develop your personal aesthetic approach to photography.
The Department of Visual Arts offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Students choose to study within a focused concentration with the options for study in additional areas. A high teacher to student ratio provides students an excellent opportunity to learn, work and create in a curriculum that integrates traditional studio practice with contemporary digital technologies. The curriculum requires participation in a two semester senior project seminar. Unique to visual arts programs in the state, the two semester senior project seminar requires students to work with a committee of faculty members to develop their senior capstone portfolio as evidence of their continuing development towards the goal of becoming a professional practicing artist.
UNL's Department of Art & Art History provides a unique and intimate environment for the study of photography. Class enrollment is limited to 18 and is often smaller so students receive individual attention enabling a sustained line of inquiry over several semesters. We offer beginning courses in both analog and digital technologies so intermediate and advanced students are free to choose between them or use a combination to pursue their ideas. UNL photography students are actively engaged in exhibiting their work on and off campus and further broaden their education through field trips to exhibitions in other cities. They work closely with visiting artists in demonstrations, Q&A sessions and portfolio critiques to prepare for life as professional artists after graduation.
The Photography area offers a range of studio courses in darkroom and digital photography that focus on technical, conceptual and aesthetic aspects of the medium as well as photography theory, history, criticism and contemporary practice. These courses are designed to provide a foundation for independent artists who use photography as a medium of expression. Studio art majors with an emphasis in Photography can take up to six regular courses in the area as well as special topics courses and independent study hours.
The photography area prepares students for both artistic expression and commercial application. The basic courses provide a good foundation in the fundamental technical skills, both digital and traditional processes. All of our courses stress the image-making concepts essential for photographic excellence. Advanced courses include: Professional Techniques (emphasis on lighting), Digital Color, Large-Format Photography, Alternative Methods (experimental approaches to photography) and Advanced Problems in Photography—the class where students choose their own projects. Our facilities include: digital imaging classroom, multiple darkrooms, and a lighting studio. All are outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment.
The Photography program at CSULB emphasizes fine art photography and its central position in contemporary art practice. The Program is in a period of growth and expansion, having hired two additional Full Time Professors in the past four years. While maintaining a commitment to traditional techniques and approaches, Photography is also invested in the area of digital applications. The large black-and-white darkroom, color printing area and digital print facilities support students with a wide range of interests and concerns. Each semester, the undergraduate program supports an average of two hundred fifty students, with approximately sixteen specifically pursuing a B.F.A. with a major in photography, and several graduate students.
The extensive course offerings include such topics as advanced black-and-white printing, color photography, digital photography, studio practices, a theory and criticism seminar, experimental approaches, and Special Studies in Art Photography, a senior level in photo-based art making. Independent Studies are also available, allowing for students to work independently under the supervision of one of the professors in photography, who are all working artists with extensive resumes and experience. The Program is enriched by the Department's distinguished guest artist and speaker program, its on campus art museum, its excellent student art galleries, and its proximity to the many museums and galleries in the greater Los Angeles area.
The mission of the Photography Department is to provide superior instruction in the use of photographic techniques for vocational, general education and transfer students. A photography major will provide the student with a strong foundation in aesthetic principles as well as an extensive range of practical photographic techniques needed for college transfer, entry into the photographic workplace or for artistic expression. Course work includes traditional processing and printing, digital photography, color photography, studio lighting, experimental processes, photo criticism and portfolio preparation. Students are encouraged to develop a personal, expressive style, achieve technical excellence and examine photography’s role in society.
The MFA program offers six areas of specialization: Ceramics, Interdisciplinary Studio, New Genres, Painting and Drawing, Photography, and Sculpture. These studio areas are supplemented by seminars and lectures in contemporary critical theory. The program emphasizes the development of a sustained artistic practice through exploration, experimentation, and intensive studio work and study. Opportunities to investigate areas beyond one's concentration are made available.
Maximum time is allowed for independent studio work, enabling students to work with up to three faculty members each quarter on an individual basis. Reviews of graduate work in the winter and spring quarters serve as a forum for critique and discussion with the entire faculty. The MFA degree normally requires two to three years of residency and culminates in a graduate exhibition.
Fine Arts students thrive in an environment of creative freedom and strong support from a range of faculty members who are internationally exhibiting artists.
BFA majors: Painting, Photography, and Sculpture/New Genres
Students learn the basic premises and key skills in each medium, and explore these in more depth in elective classes. The emphasis is on "making," and each student receives a studio space. Graduates have developed a sense of personal mission, and understand the value of their work as artists in the world.
Our mission is to ignite youths’ imagination, mentor their creativity, and expand their sense of possibility through high quality, accessible media–based arts education programs. Our programs also serve as a catalyst for people of all ages, living in low–income or underrepresented communities, to create and share personal and community stories through photography, film, and multi–media.
Included with Full Enrollment of MFA, BFA, TWO-YEAR & ONE-YEAR PROGRAMS, you will receive a FREE State of the art Canon 6D or the Nikon D600 allowing you to take stills and HD Videos, and that you can take with you when you complete the course. The New York Film Academy’s Photography School offers hands-on immersion programs that equip students to become working professionals in the creative world of still photography.
Our Philosophy Our photography schools philosophy is simple: we train students to produce consistently excellent work on-demand. We give you the tools to achieve your personal vision through photography, and the guidance on turning your passion into a profession.
What makes New York Film Academy Different? Our students say it’s the clear, practical quality of the instruction; the supportive, no-nonsense environment; the hands-on classes; and the chance to practice every major genre of photography with aesthetic and technical guidance from world class instructors -- all while shooting in some of the most exciting locations in the world. Students also mention how working in a collaborative learning environment with classmates from all over the world is a life-changing experience. Perhaps most importantly, students leave the New York Film Academy with a portfolio of spectacular images, technical expertise, sophisticated aesthetic sensibilities, and a practical understanding of the business of photography.
The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization, is a photo center devoted to advancing the skills and increasing the personal enrichment of photographers of all experience levels and ages. The organization offers nearly 150 photography classes and workshops each year, programs a variety of community events, supports artists through group and one-person gallery exhibits, and produces four annual contests/exhibitions. LACP attracts some of the most well-known and respected photographers in the world, including Sam Abell, Ralph Gibson, Greg Gorman, Douglas Kirkland, Joe McNally, Duane Michals, Joyce Tenneson and Alex Webb.
LACP’s broad range of coursework ranges from documentary and fine art photography to studio photography and portraiture. Certificate Programs are available for a comprehensive course of study, in addition to an intense One-Year Professional Program, where students may elect to take an unlimited amount of workshops for one year. For students looking to become more involved in the photographic community, LACP provides Membership which offers numerous perks and benefits, including discounts on tuition, free admittance to events and guest lectures, lowered rates on studio and lab rental, and access to a library housing over 600 photography books.
The mission of the School of Art is to provide a stimulating and challenging environment in which students develop creative and scholarly potential, to support faculty members in the pursuit of excellence in teaching and research, to serve public and professional constituencies and to promote intercultural understanding through art. The School of Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The Center for Photography at Madison (CPM) provides a home for photographic activity, and promotes photography for creative expression, cultural investigation and personal enjoyment. Through a broad range of programming, classes and exhibitions, CPM offers a forum for all of Wisconsin for the exchange of ideas, as well as the appreciation and study of the photographic arts.
CPM offers educational opportunities for a wide range of experience, from photography classes and workshops, monthly interest groups meetings, to a variety of lectures and special programs. In addition, members receive access to CPM-sponsored exhibitions, our own gallery and studio space, a well-equipped wet darkroom, an informal meeting area, as well as a library and resource center.
CPM is a non-profit organization; class discounts and special programming opportunities are available to members, but we encourage everyone with an interest in photography to stop by and join us for any event or activity.
Drew University, a Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts university, includes the College of Liberal Arts, the Drew Theological School and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. Drew is located on a beautiful, wooded, 186-acre campus in Madison, New Jersey, a thriving small town close to New York City.
Photographers play an influential role in society as observers and commentators, image-makers, and artists. At every stage of the program, a broad range of aesthetic and technical information strengthens student control of the medium and builds confidence and self-reliance.
At the Institute, students begin with an exploration of the unique vocabulary of photography and work toward personal means of communicating their visions as professional photographers.
The Photography program encourages exploration of visual direction while teaching the skills of photographic seeing, production, and presentation. The curriculum nurtures a personal capacity for distinctive visual expression and a broad understanding of the role photography plays in contemporary culture.
The MFA in Photography program allows students to develop their aesthetic and conceptual core while working in the medium of photography. Students work with graduate advisors to develop a photographic body of work that is contemporarily relevant while challenging the genre of photography. Photography is an ever-changing medium and therefore students are allowed to work traditional or experimental aspects of photography. The flexible studio electives allow students to work with imagery while developing technical proficiency in photography, book making, papermaking, metals or any of the studio classes offered at MCA.
The Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC) is an incubator for artistic creativity featuring dozens of artists working side-by-side in every medium imaginable. In 1986, long before Wynwood was the place to be Second Saturdays for the monthly art walk - before it had any galleries at all - a group of artists transformed an abandoned bakery built in the 1920s and founded the non-profit Bakehouse Art Complex.
The Image Flow has been serving Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area since 2008. We offer exhibition quality archival printing, retouching, and image restoration services. The Image Flow organizes workshops, classes, and lectures with renowned photographers in all areas of photography for beginners to advanced professionals, including traditional film photography and printing, digital photography, travel and iPhone photography, alternative process, and studio photography.
The Mpls Photo offers weekday, evening and weekend workshops covering a wide variety of topics taught by certified experts in their fields, Mpls Photo Center provides ample opportunity for growth no matter what your interest or budget. Whether you're an artist wanting to improve your portfolio, a working photographer eager to sharpen your business acumen, or an absolute beginner who wants to improve your shots and print like a pro, we're here to help you reach your goals. Mpls Photo Center education is open to the public. MPC Members receive discounts on all Classes and Workshops.
Learn from tradition and modern. Master technical and conceptual. Find your voice and stand out to employers. By studying photography from its roots to tomorrow’s trends—silver, digital, and beyond—students in this program learn to hone their skills, find a personal voice, and produce awe-inspiring works. Photography is a major offered in the four-year BFA degree program. Our BFA curriculum is rooted by Core Four—foundation courses that enhance students' professional development.
Rocky Mountain School of Photography isn't a building. Nor is it a classroom or a campus. In fact RMSP isn't an "it" at all.
Rocky Mountain School of Photography is a "we." We are a handshake, a return phone call and a human voice on the other end of the line. We are the light bulb that goes off in your head during the learning process; the extra effort that transforms "I'm trying to…" into "I got it!" We are that deep-down belly laugh you share with a like-minded stranger during a workshop, and that comfortable, at-ease feeling you have while photographing something you love. We are the experience you remember when asked, "how did you get that shot?"
A family-owned school that believes in the power of endless potential, we strive to educate, inspire and foster long-term growth in fun and supportive learning environments. Our instructors are engaging, professional, and focused. Our educational philosophy is built on the principle that with the right training, every student's goals are attainable. Our "people-first" approach to education has enabled thousands of individuals to improve their technique and further their abilities. This is just what happens when education is your lifestyle - as it has been ours since opening our doors in 1989.
Photographic images define our culture and provide the foundation for visual communication. Within the School of Art, photography is approached as an art form that can convey an array of concepts and ideas. Students are taught to critically examine how they communicate through their images. The School of Art’s BA and BFA degree programs provide broad, comprehensive instruction across artistic media, and the photography area recognizes a strength in mixing media, materials and interdisciplinary work.
The program embraces digital, analog and historic alternative processes. The photography division is committed to traditional film and wet labs as a core learning experience for photography students. This inclusive approach distinguishes this program as one dedicated to creative opportunity and craftsmanship. Students learn intention, process, materials and outcome. Visiting artists and lecturers expand the context of contemporary photography, and these visitors share their professional and commercial experiences to further prepare our students for their career goals.
The University of Montana School of Art offers a BFA and MFA with a specialization in photography. The University of Montana is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The Photography Department at Napa Valley College provides instruction in the use of traditional and contemporary photographic techniques. Majoring in photography with an emphasis in traditional or digital imaging will provide the student with basic aesthetic principles as well as an extensive range of practical photographic techniques needed for college transfer, entry into the photographic workplace, or for artistic expression.
Course work includes black and white processing and printing, digital imaging, studio lighting, experimental and non-silver processes, zone system techniques, and portfolio preparation. Students are encouraged to develop a personal, expressive style in addition to achieving technical excellence.
The Photography curriculum is designed to build fundamental technical skills in the operation of 35mm, medium and large format cameras, using traditional and digital camera systems. In addition, all classes emphasize the importance of creativity and originality in image-making through a progressive series of conceptual assignments.
A career in photography can take you anywhere from the runways of New York to the mountains of Tibet. Photographers capture moments that would otherwise go unseen and unnoticed and make a way for them to live forever. They bring mundane objects to life and allow the audience to see the world from a new angle.
Professional photographers are able to create images that relay specific messages through combining their own unique style with a vision. They not only have a good eye for what looks right, they are also technically skilled. From fashion to commercial art and the news, images that tell stories are necessary in every business.
The wide range of skills and hands-on experiences with the latest equipment that Nossi’s photography degrees offer our students gives them a competitive advantage in the job market.
Photography is everywhere you look: magazines, web pages, billboards, birthday cards, textbooks, etc. Images are used to transmit ideas and emotions, to persuade consumers, to influence voters, to make you hungry. Photographs inspire nostalgia, capture history, and they allow people to experience worlds they would otherwise never know. In this minor, students will improve their photographic skills in a course of study that could ultimately lead to employment as working photographers.
The Photography minor is open to all Wilmington University students. In this minor, students will create a path of study suited to their desires by selecting any five courses from the following list, preferably starting with TEC 215. Students who are normally required to include TEC 215 and TEC 405 for their major will, when electing a Photography minor, take an additional five classes from those listed below.
TEC 215 Basic Photographic Techniques
Photography is a two-year program of study admitting nine students each year. Analog and digital facilities are provided.
The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means. A critique panel composed of faculty and other artists or critics meets weekly, as well as for a final review each term, to discuss student work.
The Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch is a four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. The program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum while demanding a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives; the 140 majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making and multimedia.
Our faculty and staff consist of artists, commercial and documentary photographers, designers, critics, historians, and scholars, offer a wide range of perspectives. Alumni from the department go on to exhibit their work in galleries and museums; publish in national newspapers and magazines; pursue graduate degrees; become art critics; work as documentary photographers and photojournalists, filmmakers, graphic designers, web designers, picture editors, and educators; work in computer graphics and multimedia; and work in museums, educational, and community art settings.
The course offerings are extensive and varied in both the studio and critical studies area. Working with faculty advisors, students tailor a program that is best suited to their interests and goals. The curriculum of studio and critical studies courses is aimed to teach students how to think critically, to see and to find their individual vision in order to adapt and excel in a constantly evolving field.
Serving more than 5,000 students each year, the School at ICP offers a broad range of courses, from digital media and darkroom practice to certificate and master's degree programs, as well as youth programs, seminars, symposia, and a lecture series.
SVA is widely recognized as one of the finest art schools in the country for its innovative and experimental program philosophies, its participation in the cultural life of New York City, and the accessibility it offers to its unparalleled faculty of professional artists.
The Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography is an intensive one-year degree program that is offered as an on-campus/summer residency or an online/summer residency program that seamlessly blends the most current technical and aesthetic aspects of contemporary photographic image-making. The program meets the needs of professional photographers and photographic educators who want to advance their skills in digital image capture, image processing and high-quality output to remain competitive in a variety of image-making and related fields.
The four-year BFA in Photography program offers students the opportunity to create multiple bodies of work influenced by film, design, fine art, video, and sound. Students are challenged both technically and conceptually as they develop their skills through the exploration of analog and digital technology. Our goal is to provide students with the visual, technical, conceptual, and professional vocabulary they need to succeed in their field.
The New York Institute of Photography seeks to provide the highest level of distance education training in the art, technique, and business of photography using multi-media training materials developed by our staff and faculty, while providing a high level of service and support to every student. We strive to be the leading non-traditional academic institution educating people motivated to improve their lives and photography. We empower students to achieve their self-improvement goals through flexible, convenient, affordable, and highly relevant programs of study. We keep our course cost low so the maximum number of students can afford to study with us, and our non-discrimination policy allows anyone who wants to study with us the opportunity to do so. We seek to support different learning styles through our multi-media materials and our student advisor program.
Included with Full Enrollment of MFA, BFA, TWO-YEAR & ONE-YEAR PROGRAMS, you will receive a FREE State of the art Canon 6D or the Nikon D600 allowing you to take stills and HD Videos, and that you can take with you when you complete the course. The New York Film Academy’s Photography School offers hands-on immersion programs that equip students to become working professionals in the creative world of still photography.
Our photography schools philosophy is simple: we train students to produce consistently excellent work on-demand. We give you the tools to achieve your personal vision through photography, and the guidance on turning your passion into a profession.
What makes New York Film Academy Different? Our students say it’s the clear, practical quality of the instruction; the supportive, no-nonsense environment; the hands-on classes; and the chance to practice every major genre of photography with aesthetic and technical guidance from world class instructors -- all while shooting in some of the most exciting locations in the world. Students also mention how working in a collaborative learning environment with classmates from all over the world is a life-changing experience. Perhaps most importantly, students leave the New York Film Academy with a portfolio of spectacular images, technical expertise, sophisticated aesthetic sensibilities, and a practical understanding of the business of photography.
Located in the centre of Manhattan, Sotheby’s Institute – New York offers easy access to New York's rich cultural and historical resources as well as many of the world's leading galleries and museums. It has degree-granting authority from the Regents of the state of New York and has been an accredited member of the National Association of Art and Design since 1989.
As our culture becomes more and more visual, photographs play a bigger role in communicating ideas. Photographs are used to sell products, tell a story, or convey a mood. Therefore, talented and skilled photographers are in high demand. What makes a great photo? In FITs Photography Department, the focus is not solely on a pretty or well-composed image. We are interested in the very essence of photographs and how they communicate complex ideas. Whether your interest is in advertising, fashion, photojournalism/documentary, or fine art photography, our faculty of professional photographers will prepare you with the skills and knowledge you need to reach your goals as a visual artist. You'll study the latest techniques, learn about camera formats, lighting, and photo styling, and become proficient in both digital and analog technologies. Frequent critiques help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, shaping your identity as an individual creative artist.
Images will arguably be the most important documents of the 21st century, operating at the intersection of communication, commerce and culture. The MFA program educates students to be critically skilled, visually literate and creatively prepared for a world where photography, video and streaming media are responsible for much of our visual knowledge. The program encourages student initiatives in research and teaching that seek new paradigms of literacy through a critical and creative exploration of emerging forms of image making. The interdisciplinary structure of the curriculum encourages students to explore a range of related media in pursuit of their creative objectives.
The MFA program is a three-year fine arts curriculum in which photography students formally interact with other graduate students in the department through visiting artist seminars, contemporary history and criticism classes, exhibitions, critiques and studio practice. All students acquire undergraduate teaching experience over three years. Proficiencies in digital still and video technologies are expected while traditional darkroom processes remain a valuable creative component to the program.
The Photography Department provides students with the basic knowledge, technical and aesthetic skills necessary for employment in various occupations in photography. Preparation for employment in commercial, industrial, technical, and scientific fields is emphasized. Intermediate and advanced classes include both film and digital applications.
The Art Department at MiraCosta College is the place to get your start in a comprehensive fine arts program. Designed to accommodate those just entering college as well as those returning, our offerings incorporate a diverse range of skills and creative strategies to help you extend your abilities and visual perceptions. All of our faculty are active, practicing artists in their areas of expertise. We welcome students of all backgrounds to participate as art majors or academic explorers in any of our disciplines.
Our courses provide a strong foundations curriculum that applies to any art related field. Also, as many of our studio classes are multi-leveled (repeatable up to three times for credit) you also have the opportunity for more in depth development! Our two-dimensional studio program includes classes in Drawing, Painting, Life Drawing, Design and Printmaking. If your interests are three-dimensional, we offer a selection of courses in Sculpture, Ceramics and Woodworking/Furniture Design.
Our Photography program offers courses in Beginning, Advanced, and Digital Photography. In the Electronic Arts, our digital media classes are in high demand. Presently they include Introduction to Digital Imaging, Adobe Photoshop, and Advanced Photoshop. The Art History track provides a series of transfer level classes that takes you from Ancient Art to Gothic, Renaissance to Modern, or Modern Art. Additionally, the Traditional Arts class introduces students to non-western art and Art Orientation provides a basic survey of art and its practices.
In the 21st century, the development of unprecedented avenues of communication, innovative research, and advances in hardware, software and media have impacted nearly every traditional means of image production and distribution. Photography continues to be the driver of many of these technological and perceptual changes in politics, culture, the marketplace and global conditions. As a result, image makers today are challenged to be more technically capable, conceptually knowledgeable, professionally confident, ethically responsible and culturally aware than ever before.
Within a rich transdisciplinary educational environment, the Photography and Imaging Department is taking photographers into the future. Our strong relationships with industry, long tradition of integrating photography with other design disciplines, and deep experience designing new technologies and applying creative solutions to social impact problems have opened professional doors for countless graduates. Art Center offers an intimate and intense atmosphere of study that challenges assumptions about our medium, nurtures and promotes originality, and encourages individualized practice in student work, whether your goal is to become a commercial photographer, an artist, or both. Here, you learn to apply the tools of photography—traditional and digital—in a specific and personal investigation of cultural conditions or questions. Our program stresses conceptual development and social awareness aligned with the integration of professional technique and strategies, in the development of a dynamic career in image making. Images are the new global documents. They represent a new literacy and currency of this time, and will continue to be the most essential component of compelling stories in a world with an insatiable need to be informed.
With campuses in Pemberton and Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Burlington County College has numerous academic options for students. Both a certificate and an associate's degree program in photography may be pursued. Courses in the curricula examine many aspects of photography, like digital and traditional cameras.
This major prepares students for a wide range of careers in photography by providing a solid grounding in traditional photography and digital imaging. In the sophomore year, students receive in-depth training in craft and ideas fundamental to photographic imaging. Technical exercises emphasize electronic imaging as well as traditional black-and-white and color processes. The curriculum covers both descriptive photography and more experimental manipulated image-making.
During the junior year, students consider photographic forms beyond the traditional print, such as the photographic book, non-silver processes, and installation work. Large-format photography and studio practice with its control of artificial lighting are also part of the junior curriculum. In both the junior and senior years, students may pursue the study of specialized interests on an elective basis, including illustration and editorial photography, photojournalism, environmental portraiture, creative portfolio development, advanced digital imaging, and professional practice.
The senior year is primarily devoted to the production of an independent body of work of the student’s own choosing and direction. The senior thesis provides the opportunity to begin the process of self-definition as photographer and artist. A required junior-level course in photographic criticism, coupled with required classes in the history of photography, exemplifies the strong emphasis that the department places on critical thinking and self-expression in words as well as through photographs.
The Drexel University Photography program teaches students how to develop a unique photographic vision using a combination of aesthetics and technology. Using both applied and theoretical teaching methods and blending traditional processes with current digital technologies, the photography curriculum provides aspiring photographers with the breadth of experience and knowledge required to succeed in today’s marketplace. The photography foundation courses are the same for each student until their third year, at which point they design a custom path of study that culminates in their senior thesis portfolio. Our alumni’s achievements reflect the diversity built into our program. They own successful photography studios, teach in high school and college programs, serve as curators, work as magazine photo editors and operate their own digital illustration firms.
Photography offerings cover a broad range of topics from black and white film-based darkroom work to advanced digital color courses. Students begin with the basic craft of photography - from exposure of the negative, making of the print and presentation of the finished product. Courses concentrate on photography as fine art - what is unique about photography and the concerns that are shared with the visual arts. Classes are structured to equip students with an understanding of the medium's history and contemporary potential -- technically, formally, expressively and conceptually.
As one of the most respected studio art programs in San Diego, you will work under accomplished and knowledgeable studio professors who showcase their own work on a regular basis in notable art museums and galleries. The number of PLNU graduates going on to MFA programs exceeds the national average. Of those who received MFAs in the last five years, 80 percent did so at institutions consistently ranked among the top 10 MFA programs in the country.
Since 1973, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at Maine College of Art has taught students from all over the United States and around the world to become skilled documentarians and storytellers.
Motivated individuals from all walks of life come to Salt to focus on documentary storytelling, develop new skills, and build expertise. Our faculty members are working documentarians and teaching professionals who help provide a strong foundation for students to make their best work.
Students bring their passions, ideas, challenges, and projects to concentrate for 15-weeks on one track of study (Radio + Podcasting or Film + Photography); leave with a portfolio of beautifully crafted stories.
At RISD photography is seen as an ever-changing set of technical, conceptual and aesthetic conditions that exist within a broad social and cultural context. Our students develop visual and critical expertise through course work, seminars, independent studio investigations and critiques.
RISD's Photography professors are accomplished working artists, scholars and educators with a passion for both teaching and their own studio work. Visiting artists, curators, critics and gallery directors also regularly critique student work and/or make presentations, and state-of-the-art facilities allow for the exploration of film-based and digital photography, digital video and multimedia production.
You can prepare for a career in photography by earning a BFA in Photography. Offered by St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the 132 credit degree program in Photography provides students with the skills they need to explore and succeed in a wide variety of photographic careers/fields including Fine Arts, Documentary, and other commercial applications. Students who complete our program must demonstrate mastery of the technical aspects of the medium of photography, as well as develop a strong philosophical and historical foundation of the visual arts in consideration to its impact on contemporary social and visual culture.
Affiliated with the International Center of Photography, (ICP), in NYC, our BFA in Photography offers the technical and conceptual training necessary for students to master both analog and digital techniques while developing their own critical and creative solutions to their own individual ideas.
The program offers students internships in a variety of professional establishments in NYC as well as an opportunity to apply for certification from the international Center of Photography in NYC, in either their certified General Studies Program or their renown Photojournalism Certificate Program. Students in the photography program will develop field-specific critical thinking and communication skills so as to analyze, discuss and critique photographic images considering technical, aesthetic ethical and conceptual applications and values.
The Department of Art and Design at St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has attained the prestigious National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) accreditation, held by selective art schools nationwide.
The Photography Technology program provides graduates with entry-level employment skills in the rapidly changing professional photography field. Following a foundation year of basic photography, digital photography, and general education, art, and business courses, the second year includes specialized courses in lighting, large-format and color. Students select elective courses to help design programs that will prepare them for their individual career goals in the field of photography. The emphasis is on hands-on experience to develop both the creative ability and the technical skills essential to photography careers.
In a time when transformations are taking place across all areas of the arts and when technology is changing the way we make images, the Photography program at the University of Nevada is adapting their curriculum to mirror the evolution in photography to digital. From introductory classes through advanced, students will learn the fundamentals of digital photography as a means of creative expression. The Photography department emphasizes hands-on learning and focuses on critical thinking. While the majority of our research is done in the digital realm, we will continue to maintain a functioning chemical photographic facility.
The Department of Photography and Film seeks graduate students whose work challenges the common definitions of photography, film, and video while maintaining the disciplinary integrity of traditional practice. The department works to advance the highest standards of photography and film by providing an artistic community for the development and exchange of progressive visual ideas.
U.S. News & World Report ranked VCU School of the Arts 4th among public programs for photography and film.
Graduate alumni Alma Leiva and Richard Robinson have both been featured in Time Magazine’s “Lightbox”.
Since 2010, VCU Photo & Film faculty, alumni and students have been awarded VMFA Fellowships: 15 Undergraduate awards, 1 Graduate award, and 4 Professional awards, totalling $98,000.
Since 2011 Professor Sonali Gulati’s film, “I Am,” has been screened over 77 times and received 13 film festival awards. Gulati also won the prestigious Creative Capital Grant for $50,000.
Since 2011, former Guggenheim Fellow and Professor Brian Ulrich opened a major exhibit at Julie Saul Gallery, NYC and the at the Cleveland Museum of Fine Art. Ulrich also published a book, “Is This Place Great or What,” as well as having his work featured in many international publications like Artforum and Time.
Adjuncts, students and alumni have started galleries; shown their work internationally; been featured in Wired Magazine, Newsweek, and Time Magazine; and shown in local exhibitions.
The B.F.A. in Photography will provide you with the ability to acquire knowledge about and experience in the technical and aesthetic matters specific to photography as well as develop your own personal photographic vision. This program begins with ART280: Photography I where you will begin by learning basic photographic techniques using a manual camera and black and white film.
The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) offers many exciting educational programs that will prepare you for a successful career in a wide variety of fields dedicated to photographic imaging. Internationally recognized and ranked for excellence, the School’s diverse range of specializations explore the art, technology, history and aesthetics of the still and moving image. Our programs bring forth a unique educational community, both in undergraduate and graduate studies, a community in which you will have the opportunity to work and study with our highly respected and accomplished faculty in state-of-the-art facilities. The School also offers a wide array of visiting artists and talks, including the Charles Arnold Lecture Series, along with non-credit bearing summer workshops. For over 100 years, SPAS has been dedicated to creative and professional enrichment, preparing students for distinguished careers as creative and innovative leaders. If you are an incoming student for the 2012-2013 academic year, you can find your supply list here.
Visual Studies Workshop’s mission is to support makers and interpreters of images through education, publications, exhibitions, and collections. In 1969, photographer, writer, curator, and educator Nathan Lyons founded VSW as an artist-run, educational and support center for photography and other media arts. We are an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Since 1977, we have resided in two historic buildings located in the Neighborhood of the Arts in Rochester, NY, including other notable institutions such as The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film and the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery. Over the past 40 years, VSW has produced hundreds of exhibitions, over 450 artists’ books and resource titles, maintained the publication Afterimage, a valued, bi-monthly journal, housed collections with over a million images, and offered residencies to hundreds of artists. Our wide range of programs and facilities support media artists, students, other arts organizations, and the general population interested in the visual arts and its education. The interrelated program areas that implement and extend our mission are in Education, the Research Center, Afterimage, VSW Press, Artists-in-Residence, and Exhibitions.
The Professional Certificate program in Photography at Maine Media College is a one-year, intensive, hands-on learning experience for emerging photographers. Students study all facets of photography, working digitally or with traditional darkroom practices. The 30-week program comprises 48 quarter-hour credits including course work in the areas of digital and darkroom craft, vision, history, and fine art or documentary project development. The program is excellent preparation for students seeking admission to graduate programs or for those who want to develop their photography in an immersive and highly challenging environment.
PhotographyMyWay is a photography education alternative to lengthy classes at colleges and or universities.
We want to help you learn the ins and outs of your specific camera to take better pictures. Whether you are a photographer wanting to improve your skills to make more money, or a first time camera owner that wants to learn how to operate a Digital SLR, we can help! In our photography classes and workshops we will help you become the photographer and artist you’ve always wanted to be, but haven’t had the time to go back to school for. Our hands-on, practical approach to teaching gives you the opportunity to develop the skills you need at a comfortable pace.
Do you have a Digital SLR (Single-Lens-Reflex) camera, (or one that lets you control and adjust the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO), but don't know how to use it. Do you have a manual, but find that it is not very helpful? Would you like to be able to take better photographs? Do you want to learn how to go beyond a point and shoot snapshot? Then you need to take this class.
Learn the basics of SLR Photography: Exposure (Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO), Focusing (Automatic Focus, Focus Points, Focus Lock & Focus Modes), Depth of Field, Histograms, Composition and much more.
Landers Photography School provides many opportunities for you to expand your knowledge and experience as a photographer. Whether you are a Mom wanting to create better pictures of your children or you are a full-time pro, we have a class that's just right for you.
In our Photography Program, you’ll discover inspiration all around you, whether you’re capturing the small, human details of everyday life or exploring larger, abstract ideas about culture and identity. As you map this creative territory, you’ll also be developing your technical digital and analog skills. You will make images that have a real impact on your personal and professional communities.
Learn Photography from Real-World Visionaries:
Envision a New York Times photo editor critiquing your digital images. Or a world-renowned photographer from The Smithsonian leading your large-format workshop. With personal instruction from Photography faculty members like these, you’ll hone your photographic perspective as you perfect your vision. And with the latest high-end digital cameras, a traditional black-and-white darkroom, and a full range of current equipment for experimental printing processes, you’ll practice making art that matters every day.
Develop Your Career as a Photographer:
Acclaimed visiting artists, including photographers with permanent collections at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other art institutions the world over, will inspire you and help you network. And with ongoing internship opportunities at Bay Area photography studios, art galleries, and magazines, you’ll carve your niche within the photography community -- and your path to a fulfilling lifelong career.
SFAI’s photography program asks students to unite strong ideas, technical mastery, and personal meaning, emphasizing the complexity and possibilities of this evolving medium.
The visual language of photography is central to our understanding of the world around us, and SFAI’s program considers photographs both as formal objects and as modes of communication, documentation, expression, and critique. As students work inside and out of the studio, they consider questions central to the history and future of the medium: What characterizes a particular photograph as art? How has photography reproduced or challenged what is thought of as real or true? How has the digital revolution impacted the practice and interpretation of photography? What emerging technologies will shape 21st century image-making—and what historical methods offer unexplored potential?
Established in 1945 by Ansel Adams and Minor White, SFAI’s Photography Department was the first in the country dedicated to fine art photography, and the program continues to engage with aesthetic, theoretical, and technical issues surrounding contemporary photography. With the freedom to pursue independent projects in both analog and digital formats, graduate students take approaches from personal narratives to documentary work to experimental abstractions. SFAI’s interdisciplinary emphasis encourages students to draw from areas such as film/video, printmaking, design, performance, and writing to imagine new forms of production and display.
The Bay Area offers many resources to enhance a photographer’s practice. SFMOMA, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, The Pilara Collection, the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, and the California Historical Society have extensive photographic holdings, and a large number of galleries exclusively show photo-based work. The organization Photo Alliance also programs a lecture series that brings nationally known photographers to San Francisco.
The Harvey Milk Photography Center, formerly known as the San Francisco Photo Center, has been a cornerstone of arts programming in the community almost since the building’s inception in the 1940s.
We offer a wide variety of weekly classes, Saturday workshops, and orientations in both film and digital photography for beginners and professionals. We also offer six-month and annual memberships for full access to our large darkroom, film processing areas, and state-of-the-art digital lab. Members also have the opportunity to take part in four photography exhibits per year in our large studio space.
Are you looking for media arts schools and programs in the San Francisco area? Consider The Art Institute of California—San Francisco, a campus of Argosy University. As a media arts school, The Art Institute of California—San Francisco, a campus of Argosy University can offer you a variety of programs to pursue. Media arts school graduates bring music, movies, Web sites, video games, and more to our lives. A media arts school could be for you if you are creative, imaginative, detail oriented, and ready to learn technical skills. At a media arts school, you can learn to combine your creative talent with technical skills to create functional works of art. Our media arts school is designed to teach you to use design to communicate your ideas to the world. So end your search today for media arts schools and programs with The Art Institute of California—San Francisco, a campus of Argosy University.
The City College of San Francisco's Photography Department is one of the oldest and largest programs in the country with over two dozen courses and more than thirty Instructors. We offer a broad selection of classes including but not limited to History and Aesthetics of Photography, Advanced B&W Darkroom Techniques, Advanced Studio Lighting, Digital Imaging, Mixed Media and Business Practices of Photography. Our faculty and staff consist of experienced professionals who create an environment that encourages creativity, technical aptitude and critical thinking. Whether your interest is as a fine artist, commercial photographer or enthusiast, we will provide the means and guidance that will help you achieve your goals.
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Like the city it’s called home since 1929, Academy of Art University has always existed on the vanguard of innovation and creativity. The Academy and San Francisco have grown up together and served as mutual sources of inspiration and talent—take a look back at notable moments in the Academy’s history in San Francisco. Turn your passion into a career. At the Academy of Art University’s School of Photography, you have every opportunity and resource to advance your passion into a finished body of work. Learn from a faculty of working professionals and begin your new adventure today.
Located within the Department of Art and Art History, the Photography Program at San Jose State University is the largest in the California State University system and one of the largest in the Western United States. Our curriculum engages students in a diverse range of contemporary practices in the medium, from traditional silver-based photography and historic alternative photo processes, to innovative approaches to digital and video imaging. In addition to our emphasis in photography as a fine art, our program also includes a strong commercial photography component, a feature that makes our undergraduate program unique. To find out what is currently going on check out the blog for current and upcoming gallery shows, photography shows around the Bay Area, and upcoming photography lectures.
Cal Poly’s Art & Design Department prepares students to explore the world in unexpected ways, to develop a discriminating eye, and to take calculated risks through dynamic visual expression in a range of media. With 17,000 square feet dedicated to making art, students have space to pursue concentrations in graphic design, photography and studio art.
We believe in providing our students with the tools they need to get the job done. We start by giving every incoming student gets a professional grade camera to keep! The world of photography is expanding – from new media journalism to the fashion world, Hollywood set photography to gallery and museum curation. Whether your dream is to record the walkways of Milan, publish a book of artwork, or make visible the far corners of the earth, our Photography degrees can help you get there. At Santa Fe University of Art and Design, we believe in creating an ultimate digital photographer: you’ll be flexible enough to shift and change with the evolving world of photography, and expand your technique with traditional darkroom practices. You’ll have your hands on gear in your first semester: check out lighting equipment, cameras, and more from our students-only facility – so you’ll always have exactly what you need to get the perfect shot.
Photography at Skidmore is an exploration of the varied aesthetic and technical aspects of the digital photographic process. Concentration is placed on increasing students' visual sensitivity and awareness to issues of photography and using photography to solve problems of visual expression. Among many other aspects of photography, students are exposed to the principles of composition, post-processing techniques, and portfolio presentation.
The SCAD photography program offers both a solid set of foundational skills and the opportunity for a student to tailor the course of study to his or her strengths, interests and professional goals. Industry-standard equipment helps advance a sophisticated level of career preparation. Students are nurtured by SCAD professors, who offer unique and valuable gifts, viewpoints, skills, talents and collegiality to enable students to reach their highest creative potential.
Survey the history of photography and learn from the masters as you develop your own personal aesthetic. Hone your photography skills through hands-on practice with a 35 mm camera. Examine the basics of composition, fine art printing and the digital tools that will help you produce high-quality creative images. Become versed in traditional wet chemical and modern digital photography techniques.
You will develop skills to produce eye-catching photographic images, which provide you with the foundation to launch your artistic or commercial career in photography.
Why take a course at Photo Center NW? For one, we’re passionate about the photographic arts and our classes offer everything from a rigorous technical instruction, to creative and artistic development. For those looking to explore photographic concepts or take a short introductory course, we offer a range of shorter workshops for any level. You’ll be connected to a cohort of other dedicated students, and become part of a community that recognizes and rewards great photographic work.
In Pratt’s Mixed Media classes work with an array of materials and creative techniques. From fibers to bookmaking to collage and more, discover what speaks to you, Pratt’s mixed Media classes offer everyone the opportunity to play with materials and explore concepts. In Pratt’s Photography classes you have access to analog color photography printing. The Color Darkroom allows renters to print gallery-quality color using traditional color film negatives.
The Art community at Cornish actively promotes the creative environment and the intellectual context for artistic experimentation and risk taking. Aimed at aspiring artists from a broad range of backgrounds, this program offers a unique interdisciplinary environment where the margins between print, sculpture, moving image, drawing, photography, painting, performance, sound and writing are dissolved in favor of inventive alliances.
The Photography program offers highly specialized training in the context of a broader liberal arts education. We focus heavily on photographic technique, critical theory, and portfolio development. Our curriculum provides the training and practice necessary to begin a career in photography or to gain admittance into top graduate programs in the arts. Our students benefit from faculty who actively exhibit and publish their work. We work in collaboration with the Photographic Center Northwest, a non-profit community arts center where students have the opportunity to learn from internationally recognized photographers. Photography students may pursue an emphasis in documentary photography that includes courses in Documentary Survey, Documentary Methodology and Documentary Stills and Video.
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is comprised of three central units, each of which boasts a rich history:
- The College of Art was founded in 1879 as the first professional, university-affiliated art school in the United States, and is the only art school to have fathered a major metropolitan art museum.
- The College of Architecture was established in 1910, and has the distinction of being one of the 10 founding members of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
- The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (formerly the Washington University Gallery of Art) was founded in 1881 as the first art museum west of the Mississippi River.
The Sam Fox School as we currently know it evolved over several years. The Visual Arts & Design Center (1997), subsequently named the Sam Fox Arts Center (2002), was envisioned as a hub for interdisciplinary programs among the College of Art, College of Architecture, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Art & Architecture Library, and Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.
The vision grew to encompass the launch of a new school at Washington University in St. Louis. In January 2005, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the creation of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, uniting the academic units of Art and Architecture with the University Museum under the leadership of a new dean.
Imaginative. Versatile. Proficient. These are the qualities Webster University tries to instill in its photography students.
The students are taught through a hands-on approach that encourages the capability to work in a variety of photographic fields and technical environments. They graduate with a sold grounding in the aesthetic and the communicative aspects of the medium.
Courses are offered in a variety of formats (small, medium and large), materials (black/white and color) and technical environments (chemical and digital). Class sizes are small to ensure maximum access to needed equipment.
Students ultimately concentrate in one area of application, such as photojournalism or commercial/studio photography, making Webster the only university in the area that offers an applied photography degree. Upon graduation, students will be prepared to seek employment with a newspaper, portrait studio or commercial studio; to establish their own freelance operation; or, to move into further specific training such as forensic photography.
On campus, student work often is display in the May Gallery. The gallery was established in 1988 and remains one of the few spaces in the St. Louis area dedicated to showing a wide range of photographic work. It hosts the Annual Juried Student Photography Exhibition, a competitive and respected event.
The Small Wall Gallery, opened in Fall 2000, complements the May Gallery by hosting smaller photographic exhibitions -- especially student work, work-in-progress and work that otherwise might not be seen in a gallery setting.
San Joaquin Delta College is a community college in Stockton, California.
Photography, Associate in Arts
The Major in Photography is designed to develop a strong base of knowledge and skills that will serve as a foundation for further study and/or pursuit of a career. The Associate in Arts in Photography degree requires completion of the AA-GE pattern (24 units), CSU-GE pattern (40 units), or the IGETC-CSU pattern (37 units). Students are encouraged to see a counselor for assistance in developing an educational plan that will identify the lower division major preparation and general education coursework that corresponds to the intended major and specific transfer institution. Students should consult www.assist.org for current course articulation in their major.
The photography program in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Art is considered one of the finest institutions in the country. Our graduate photography program has ranked in the top ten in the country by U.S. News and World Report since 2002.
Students learn from faculty with diverse creative concerns and who cultivate technique in the service of ideas, parallel to the critical and cultural analysis of the medium. Students have access to the widest range of photographic possibilities, including silver gelatin, chromogenic color, digital imaging, video, alternative processes and mixed media. Students explore interdisciplinary options in their art through other disciplines, including printmaking, intermedia and sculpture.
The Northlight Gallery is a vital part of the School of Art’s photography program. Students have the opportunity to exhibit. The community as well as students also can see the work of outstanding photographic artists from across the country. Northlight Gallery houses a permanent collection and extended loan of more than 4,000 prints that span the medium's history dating back to 1840.
The Graphics Technology program offers a 48 credit technical certificate that is designed to give students basic knowledge of the graphics industry. Students will learn the basics of graphic design software (CS4 Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop) through lecture, hands-on activities, projects and internship opportunities. Additional focus on digital photography and a secondary focus on printing will also be included.
The students are instructed on how graphics, photography and print work together to provide the products that are required for entry level employment in the graphics industry.
Full time students can complete the program in one year. Part time, including high school students, can complete the program in four semesters. Students who successfully complete the program may be eligible to complete their associate's degree at Washburn University.
The University of Arizona offers the BA, BFA and MFA in Studio Art. Students may also pursue K-12 Teacher Certification and the graduate certificate program in Museum Studies.
The Photography division faculty and students conduct a rigorous investigation into the nature and meaning of photographic representation and its role in contemporary culture. Students are expected to demonstrate commitment to expressive inquiry, maturity of vision and take responsibility for their professional development as artists. The division takes a broad and progressive approach to the practice and definition of photography, encouraging you to question and expand the boundaries of the medium. The curriculum offers courses in traditional black and white darkroom techniques, digital and other image-forming technologies, color processes, large-scale photography, video, and performance. Facilities include group and semi-private black and white darkrooms and film processing areas, color enlargers and a 20” processor, professional lighting studio and large format digital output facilities.
At any given time, there are between six and ten students in the MFA program. The Center for Creative Photography plays an important role in the education of photography and art history students by offering access to all of the Center’s resources, including semester-long internships and lectures by distinguished photographers, historians, and critics. Studio photography and art history students studying the history of photography take advantage of photographic exhibitions, lectures, print viewings, gallery talks, an extensive photographic library, an artists’ book collection, and a world class archive of photographs and related material.
The Program in Photography and Media is committed to educating independent artists in a world where photographic imagery and new media representations and strategies are omnipresent. From foundation work through graduate studies, courses are designed to challenge conventional notions of artistic practice and to question the position of representation within contemporary culture. The program encourages debate and experimentation, since nothing is stable or even particularly comfortable in photography's relation to the other arts-especially in an environment that includes so many new practices. The faculty represents a broad range of those practices, some purely photographic, some entirely digital and others branching off into writing and publishing, painting, video, filmmaking, assemblage, net art, digital media and installation.
The Program in Photography and Media offers a four-year BFA in Photography and Media, as well as a two-year MFA in Photography and Media.
BFA Fine Art Photography
The Corcoran’s 120-credit photography program is mentored by faculty who are practicing artists themselves, dedicated to the role that lens-based media plays in our contemporary society. Fine Art Photography students at the Corcoran develop artistic and technical skills in tandem, in traditional darkrooms and on the cutting-edge of digital photography and video, or with a combination of the two. Because our curriculum lets you tailor your studies to your interests, interactions with other fine-art approaches such as sculpture and installation are encouraged. The program emphasizes personal creativity, an awareness of cultural context, and critical methods of analysis. The major is centered on a required core of studio courses but allows plenty of flexibility for elective courses.
Associate of Fine Arts
The Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree program at the Corcoran College of Art + Design provides a course of study for students who are highly motivated about their art education and are seeking professional development, a career change or are unable to enroll in the College's full-time BFA program. Students may attend on a part-time basis and have up to six years from the time of enrollment to complete the 60-credit degree. Students interested in applying for the AFA degree program are encouraged to visit the College for an interview. To arrange for an interview with the Office of Admissions, please call (202) 639-1814. Interested candidates are asked to call for an appointment at least one week before the visit and to mention their interest in the AFA program.
The Corcoran offers four AFA degrees:
Digital Media, Fine Art, Fine Art Photography. Graphic Design
Each program offers a series of courses in Foundation, Art/Design History, General Studies, and Studio, with required studios plus studio electives where students can pursue a particular area of focus within their major.
The Professional Photography program provides students with a working knowledge of the photography industry. Students are trained for entry-level positions in the fields of commercial, photojournalism, and portraiture photography. The program is recognized as one of the best in the Midwest.
Accreditation:
This program is recognized by the Professional Photographers of America. Hawkeye’s Professional Photography program has articulation agreements with Upper Iowa University and Mount Mercy University allowing graduates to enter to junior status. The Iowa Regent universities accept a limited number of transfer and elective credits. Articulation agreements may assist the graduates in transferring additional credits. For more information, contact a program advisor.
The Photography Department emphasizes the use of the photographic medium as an artistic tool. While some courses address commercial issues, the focus of the department is toward producing visual artists who use photography as a primary means of expression. A variety of formats are integrated within a curriculum that includes experimental, narrative, and documentary approaches to the medium. Students are trained in B&W and color wet processes, studio practices, digital technologies and a variety of historical techniques. A senior exhibition marks the culmination of the program of study.
The limited residency MFA in Photography at the Hartford Art School is an innovative program designed for both mature individuals with established experience in the field as well as recent graduates who wish to further their own practice and acquire an MFA degree in order to facilitate their professional credentials as artists and educators. It differentiates itself from existing programs in that the new program is an International limited-residency program.
The program couples intensive on-campus sessions during the summer with a travel component in the spring and fall. The three summer sessions meet at the University of Hartford for two-weeks, during which students and faculty interact inside and outside the classroom. The two fall and two spring sessions meet at off-site locations (New York City, Berlin, and other sites) for seven-to-ten days. In the time between classroom sessions, students complete course assignments and maintain regular contact with their Thesis Advisor. The total time to the MFA is twenty-five months, of which only ten to twelve weeks are spent away from your studio.
Our approach offers a “blended learning model” — research, independent study, and online critiques - with on-site classroom learning. During the summer sessions students will be in class and have ample opportunity to interact with faculty and make use of the advanced analogue and digital facilities at the Hartford Art School. The faculty is gathered from the United States and international locations and will be augmented by visiting artists, curators, writers and other leading professionals in the field.
This new model enhances our ability to be a truly international program - from our students to faculty, and encompassing off-premise meeting destinations. We believe that the art world is situated within a “global market” and our program is uniquely designed to access and utilize this enriching perspective.
Housed in a historic art deco building, the Armory provides art classes for students of all ages, exhibitions, art salons, lectures, and special events. Nearly 100 courses held in 12 state-of-the-art studios are offered including ceramics, digital arts, drawing, glass fusing, jewelry, painting, printmaking, fibers, sculpture, and 20 exhibitions are hosted annually in four galleries.
Led by documentary photographer and widely popular instructor Rick Lang since 1995, Crealdé’s Photography Department offers over twenty classes designed for amateurs as well as serious students of photography and working fine art photographers who wish to enhance their technical and aesthetic skills. In addition to general courses in conventional and digital photography and darkroom instruction, the curriculum includes special topic courses that give students the opportunity to study classic photographic themes such as the landscape, the photographic still life, architectural photography, the photographic portrait, and the documentary. Tuition includes the use of Crealdé's black and white professional darkroom facilities.
A darkroom rental program and Saturday field trips are also available. A popular evening workshop series in partnership with Colonial Photo and Hobby introduces students to the newest digital cameras on the market today. In addition, weekend Visiting Artist Workshops are offered year-round. Crealdé offers classes in Photoshop for Photographers and a wide range of digital lab classes in a state-of-the-art digital classroom at the Heritage Center, built with a generous grant from the Community Foundation of Central Florida.
