Abilene Christian University (Abilene Christian University Art and Design)

We in the Abilene Christian University Art and Design Department believe that our program in the visual arts owes its excellence to its faculty, its facilities, and its students. Our versatile faculty is made up of award-winning artists; we are leaders in our various disciplines and media, artists that actively produce and exhibit our creative work. We are proud to announce that our Interior Design program was granted a six-year accreditation by FIDER in 2005.

We value our roles as educators: we love to teach because we love what we teach. Our intent is to teach not only by what we say, but in everything we do. To this end, we strive to be educators who motivate, inspire, and nurture-we seek to be true mentors to our students.

As artists and educators, we believe that art has a unique power to change our world, to make it a more beautiful, generous, rich, and open place. Moreover, we are convinced that the world needs more than artists, it needs Christian artists: artists that in their talent and power of creative expression proclaim the glory of the Creator.??




Career Opportunities
* Architect
* Art director
* Art teacher
* Artist
* Graphic designer
* Gallery or museum coordinator
* Illustrator
* Interior Designer

Art and design graduates may pursue specialized post-graduate degrees in areas of interest such as architecture, interior design, industrial design, art therapy, arts administration, animation, illustration, painting, sculpture, etc. Those earning their MFA, the terminal degree in studio art, are eligible to teach art in colleges and universities. And with the proper certification, ACU art and design graduates become educators in elementary and secondary education. ACU art and design graduates work in galleries and in museums as directors and administrators. They work as interior designers, space planners, architects, set designers, as animators, as book illustrators and as graphic designers. They work in advertising as art directors and as creative consultants. Graduates of the Department of Art and Design become full-time creative artists that are supported by their gallery sales and commissions.

Graduates of the ACU Department of Art and Design also enjoy productive careers in many non-art related fields as well in every aspect of our society. In their respected vocations they may not always use paint and an artist???s brush, but they do use what they learned as art and design majors, to use their minds as a creative tool, whatever the application. For no brush is finer, no stone chisel is sharper and no ink flows more effortlessly than the keen and attentive mind, the spirit of the artist.




Degrees
* Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA)
The BFA is a studio intense course of study designed for students with a strong commitment to a professional future as graphic designers, studio artist/teachers. The student may, according to his or her interests and career goals, select a major concentration from the areas of:

Graphic Design
2-Dimensional Studio (Drawing, Painting and Printmaking)
3-Dimensional Studio (Sculpture, Ceramics, and Jewelry/metals)

* Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA)
The Bachelor of Arts degree provides opportunity to major in art within the framework of a liberal arts degree. This degree is not recommended for students interested in postgraduate or graduate study in art.

* Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) CIDA Accredited (Formerly FIDER)
The Bachelor of Science degree in interior design prepares students for careers in business, industry, retail, research or graduate study. The curriculum is designed for those interested in how technical and aesthetic aspects of interior design affect a diversity of populations in residential and non-residential environments. The curriculum prepares students with unique problem solving techniques to creatively plan and design environments that protect the health, safety and welfare of building occupants.

* Associate of Arts (AA)
The Associate of Arts degree is a 69-hour, two-year program of study designed for students that have an interest in architecture. The foundational curriculum prepares students with essential architectural design problem solving techniques and skills.




Facilities and Resources
ACU art and design students and the art/design faculty enjoy the advantages of a spacious, well-equipped facility in the Alice Pratt Brown Art Hall, consisting of large functional studios, high-tech computer labs and specialized classroom spaces. The complex includes the Clover Virginia Shore Art Gallery, the heart of the department, an elegant showcase for the works of nationally recognized artists and of our students. The computer lab is state-of-the-art, providing the technology to meet the needs of the continually evolving, and work that is used in public exhibitions. All work done as a part of class work by regularly enrolled students is the property of the department until released, and the department reserves the right to exhibit or to reproduce such work in publications of the university.

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