The visual arts stimulate growth and appreciation of aesthetics among the Bismarck State College students, faculty, and staff, and in the community.
The visual arts engage the student emotionally, intellectually and spiritually through a variety of activities that promote an understanding and respect through the process of observation and synthesis. The task of the visual arts is to weld together imagination and experience.
The Visual Art program has a threefold mission: (1) to provide the core curriculum for students planning to transfer to a four year institution and for students who will involve art as a profession and/or livelihood; (2) to allow the students to enjoy art and develop their skills by participation in local, state, and national art activities and exhibitions; (3) and to make artistic contribution to the community.
Students may complete their initial two years of study toward a bachelor of arts degree in these categories: two dimensional design (painting, drawing); three dimensional design (ceramics, sculpture, jewelry); and design (computer, graphic, commercial, fashion, industrial and interior).
Non-major students may also benefit from visual art courses through our humanities-based introductory and appreciation courses. Non-traditional students are also an important part of the Visual Art Program. Inclusion of students who have returned to school for a variety of reasons and who are there for the love of learning add considerable depth and range to the classroom experience. Students often take visual art courses for self enrichment and several of the courses are structured so students can have continued enrollment as their skills develop.
Part of our goal as a visual arts program in a community college is to bring art to the community, but also as important, it is our goal to bring the community into our art program to make it a richer, deeper, more diverse and rewarding environment in which to express the creative spirit.
Career Possibilities: include but are not limited to: ART INSTRUCTOR: private, elementary, high school, college, university, GALLERY: director, curator, critic, agent, STUDIO: private, commercial, medical and scientific illustrator, illustrator, cartoonist, DESIGN: jewelry, fashion, industrial, interior, computer, graphic, commercial, animation and cartooning, ART THERAPY: research, industrial, rehabilitation, instructional and private.
The Art Department reserves the right to retain, exhibit, and reproduce any art work submitted for credit in any of the courses or programs.
