Bachelor of Fine Arts Interior Design

Interior design is a multi-faceted profession that shapes the spaces and places where people live, work, gather, play and learn.

Interior designers apply creative and technical solutions to achieve a built interior environment that enhances our quality of life, contributes to our culture and brings art into everyday life. In a rapidly changing, highly technological world, they protect our health, safety and wellbeing by solving modern, complex problems with innovative and cutting-edge lifestyle approaches and applications.

At Kean, you will create designs that adhere to code and regulatory requirements and conform to the principles of environmental sustainability. Our interior design process includes research, analysis, and integration of knowledge to reflect a client’s taste and sensibility while fulfilling project goals.

The program concludes with capstone courses in which students set goals and create professional portfolios enabling them to competently and confidently enter the job market.

Michael Graves College is dedicated to taking design and architecture to a wider public audience. It is comprised of two schools, the Robert Busch School of Design and the School of Public Architecture.

Michael Graves College at Kean University carries the name and endorsement of a man who was one of the world’s premiere architects and designers—Michael Graves. Graves is credited with broadening the role of the architect and designer in society and raising public interest in good design as essential to the quality of everyday life. We are proud to carry on his great legacy.

David Mohney, FAIA, previously worked as the Dean of the College of Design at the University of Kentucky and taught at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. A practicing architect, he was educated at Harvard University and Princeton’s School of Architecture. David serves on both the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Board of Directors and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Board of Governors.

Rose Gonnella is the Associate Dean of Michael Graves College at Kean University and Wenzhou-Kean University in China. Rose has taught graphic design for over 25 years, including courses in design theory, materials and techniques, as well as guiding Kean's web design curriculum at its inception. As co-author, Rose has contributed research and writing to several books and has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles on creativity, art, architecture and design.