Building on the student's sense of personal direction in the arts, the program emphasizes ways and means to help realize the student's goals based on a more comprehensive understanding of the world of contemporary expression. The ceramics program emphasizes the possibility of engagement in a broad range of concerns in contemporary art and culture that can be expressed in ceramic media. Students are challenged to experiment with form and meaning in traditional ceramic genres, or to originate expanded definitions of ceramics, which may include mixed-media and ceramic elements in performance, architecture, and other installations. Photography Much of the work in the area of photography can be characterized as experimental, unconventional, or mixed media. Photography faculty are primarily interested in developing an individual who has the potential for pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium.
Opportunities also exist in the areas of video and computer imaging.
It encourages inter-area projects which involve the theoretical procedures or material processes of other academic disciplines.