Majors & Minors
Studio Fine Arts
Major, Minor
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
As a fine arts student at Union, you can expect to thrive in a close-knit environment in which you gain the confidence and skills needed to make, understand and appreciate art.
Working in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, you will be intellectually, creatively and technically challenged in small classes that promote artistic and personal discovery. You will experience a robust curriculum under the guidance of accomplished faculty who are active in their respective fields, regularly exhibiting their work and garnering awards in prestigious shows.
You’ll enjoy real opportunities to exhibit your own art, including in the Crowell and West Galleries in the visual arts building, Wikoff Student Gallery in the Nott Memorial, and at Steinmetz Symposium, a campus-wide event dedicated to research and creative work. The Department of Visual Arts also sponsors an exciting roster of visiting artists, including alumni who return to campus to talk about their experiences and career paths.
Program highlights
Courses
Choose from many areas of study, including drawing, painting, photography, digital arts and sculpture. Learn about linocut, collagraph, monotype and woodcut in relief printing. Navigate the world of computer aided graphic design in Digital Aesthetics.
Inspired spaces
Make yourself at home in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts. This spacious, light-filled building has outstanding studios for drawing, printmaking, metalworking, sculpture, and 2D and 3D design, and more.
Field trips and study abroad
Join your classmates and professors on excursions to New York City galleries, museums and studios. Study digital art on a term abroad in Florence or pursue drawing and printmaking on a mini-term in Paris.
After Union
Our fine arts graduates work as professional artists, curators, designers, educators, media specialists and researchers in a variety of venues, including museums, galleries, schools, and arts and cultural organizations. Many have established careers in everything from medicine to technology using their skills as communicators, innovators and makers.
What some of our recent graduates are doing:
- Curatorial division research associate, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Designer and principal, DesignGLXY
- Director of impact teams, Common Energy
- Educator, Hudson River Museum
- Interactive engineer, TikTok/ByteDance
- Manager of stewardship and administration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Marketing and graphic designer, Hubbell
- Public art administrator, Cambridge Arts Council, Boston
- Researcher, Catalogue Raisonné, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
- User experience consultant, Center for Digital Experiences, Pratt Institute
- UX designer and front-end web developer
- Visual effects artist, DreamWorks Animation
