Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art

The Art Department embraces, encourages, and promotes diverse perspectives using the cultural power of art to catalyze change.

Studio Art outcomes at a glance

• 60% Begin careers immediately in teaching, design, photography, digital production, social media, galleries, or advertising.
• 40% Go on to graduate schools for studio MFAs or fields like architecture or medical illustration.

Studio artists from a liberal arts environment have more opportunities

Developing a broad intellectual grounding in a variety of fields outside the studio helps you work from an informed perspective and understand the conceptual motivations of art and media.

• Your advanced projects are opportunities to express yourself. You are encouraged to design art projects that build on your unique interests and help you lay the groundwork for pathways after college.
• Work closely with internationally-recognized faculty. In small classes and advanced projects, you get the mentorship of dedicated and creative faculty.
• An art curriculum focused on critical theory as well as technique. Strong analytical, writing, and speaking skills broaden your range of expression and prepare you for a variety of real-world applications.
• Combine studio art with all sorts of majors or minors. No need to give up your dreams of working with art to pursue other goals. Art skills plus other expertise expands your creative possibilities.
• Access to cutting-edge technologies. The Allegheny Lab for Innovation and Creativity is a leading-edge design and fabrication facility with the latest equipment and software.

At Allegheny College, we invite our students not to limit themselves — but instead to explore all of their interests.

Every Allegheny student takes courses in each division of knowledge — humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences — declaring both a major and a minor (outside the division of their major) by the end of their sophomore year.

Students combine their interests and expand their concentrations beyond one division, developing the sort of big-picture thinking that is in high demand in today’s global marketplace.

Our Mission

Allegheny’s undergraduate residential education prepares young adults for successful, meaningful lives by promoting students’ intellectual, moral, and social development and encouraging personal and civic responsibility. Allegheny’s faculty and staff combine high academic standards and a commitment to the exchange of knowledge with a supportive approach to learning. Graduates are equipped to think critically and creatively, write clearly, speak persuasively, and meet challenges in a diverse, interconnected world.

Statement of Community

Allegheny students and employees are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful and safe residential learning community that will actively confront and challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, religious bigotry, and other forms of harassment and discrimination. We encourage individual growth by promoting a free exchange of ideas in a setting that values diversity, trust, and equality. So that the right of all to participate in a shared learning experience is upheld, Allegheny affirms its commitment to the principles of freedom of speech and inquiry, while at the same time fostering responsibility and accountability in the exercise of these freedoms. This statement does not replace existing personnel policies and codes of conduct.