Bachelor of Fine Arts - Painting

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art: Painting offers professional, studio-based training in the visual arts with all the advantages of a university education.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts is a professional degree with concentrated areas of specialization, so students will take more art courses than in a Bachelor of Arts program. At University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, they also have the advantages of a university education to diversify studies and expand career opportunities.

Students will develop cross-disciplinary sensitivity—with the possibility of combining painting with printmaking, photography, digital media, textiles, and other disciplines in contemporary art making. They will also be able to explore fields across the university, such as business, engineering, and science.

Fine artists are inherent problem-solvers, negotiators, collaborators, and team-players; they have excellent hand/eye coordination and can illustrate their ideas—often quickly—so that others can understand a concept beyond the written or spoken word. The skills of a fine artist can be applied in education, business, advertising, set design, and arts management (gallery directors, administrators), to name a few.