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Explore your creativity and gain versatile skills through our Art degree program.
Our Art degree program is all about helping you find and nurture your distinct creative voice.
Elmira College's Art degree program is designed to instill students with vital skills – including critical reasoning, problem-solving, and communication – that will help in any profession. We offer four new program concentrations to specialize your artistic pursuits. You'll be guided by professors who are accomplished professional artists and serve as thoughtful mentors. Plus, you will have full access to well-equipped, spacious studios during your studies, and enjoy many opportunities to exhibit your artwork throughout the academic year.
You will develop more than just your own artistic skills – you will also learn critical thinking, communication, analysis, and problem-solving. The Art degree program at Elmira also ensures that by graduation, you'll have developed a portfolio of work to showcase to potential employers. Graduates of our Art program have gone on to become teachers, professional artists, illustrators, designers, art handlers, gallery managers, and curators. And many students at Elmira choose to double major in art/business, art/psychology, art/anthropology, art/English, or art/history.
The art major is a flexible program with four concentration options. An art minor is a great complement to many majors. Studying art helps build critical-thinking and communication skills, as well as develop new and creative ways to express yourself.
Developed in coordination with a licensed art therapist, Art Therapy is a 21-credit hour concentration that combines art and psychotherapy.
The Digital Art and Graphic Design program merges creative thinking with technical skills, giving you the visual communications skills in demand in marketing, advertising, social media, theatrical production, and online publishing careers.
The Digital Art and Product Design program is for anyone who wants to design beautiful and functional products that delight consumers.
The Studio Art program will give you the fundamentals needed for post-graduate study or professional employment, providing you the flexibility to pair your studies with other disciplines, broadening the range of opportunities you can pursue in and after Elmira College.
From Art Director to Museum Curator, there are countless career paths that will allow you to flex your creative muscles and build a professional career.
Art students have a number of internship opportunities at Elmira.
Our professors are eager to help you excel in your studies and hone your creative expression.
Do you have questions about the Art program? Please contact us.