Art Major

The Missouri Valley College Art and Design program balances professional training with liberal arts to develop informed, dynamic artists and art educators.  Within an immersive studio environment, students apply diverse problem-solving methods, developing a sense of context in art history that expands their ability to create effective and compelling visual communication in studio art and graphic design.  

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will develop technical excellence through disciplined practice in each art medium, including digital and traditional. 
• Students will develop artworks that create meaningful conversations with artworks across times and places, demonstrating their sense of context in art history encompassing cave ages to the present. 
• Students will construct articulate evaluations of their work and others', linking form and content.  
• Students will create designs that communicate effectively and employ a range of appropriate problem solving applications.

Major assessment:  Senior Art majors will submit a portfolio of their work and exhibit their work in conjunction with AR 490, Senior Project.  The portfolio and the exhibit will include an artist’s statement.   

BFA Clearance: Students that wish to pursue a BFA in Studio Art or Graphic Design must participate in the clearance process that is combined with the yearly required Juries, at the student's junior level.  Students must be art majors and must have taken at least two upper level courses in their area of concentration.  Clearance consists of three meetings: BFA Expectations and Requirements, BFA Portfolio prepping, and an individual BFA Portfolio Review meeting with art faculty members at the yearly juries, after which time students will receive a letter informing them whether they have cleared into BFA.  Students who do not pass BFA Clearance will default to the BA Visual Art concentration.