Challenge others to see the world from a different perspective.
You have the ability to see things in a way no one else does. Through your art making, you want to solve problems visually and creatively while exploring personal yet universal ideas.
As a studio arts major, you'll have the opportunity to focus in one of four specializations – Photography, Painting, Ceramics/ Sculpture, or Printmaking. Combined with our reimagined general education curriculum, you'll have the foundation you’ll need to promote community, justice, and a more sustainable future.
You’ll start with a dynamic set of foundation courses that will give you the skills you need to move forward in your artmaking. Then you will both experiment through interdisciplinary opportunities, while you deep dive in your area of specialization, gaining artist and professional experience. Through critiques, discussions, presentations, reviews, and writing, you’ll learn how to communicate with the world through your unique voice, style, and ideas.
With your studio arts degree from Lesley, you'll break new ground as a creative professional while building your career as a museum curator, art educator, creative artist, archivist, commercial artist, gallery director, photographer, photo editor, and more.
Through it all, you’ll receive support from working artists who will mentor you through your artistic development. Ongoing instruction and critique from faculty and visiting artists will enrich your studio practice with new perspective and potential.
Opportunities for internships in Greater Boston will expand your professional skill sets. Work in museums, galleries, or independent studios at places like the Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Printmakers, the Boston Center for the Arts, and more. Build a creative network while working with artists, historians, curators, and other visual artists.
The outcome? You’ll graduate prepared to take your work to unexpected levels, as an artist and a professional, while forging a lifelong career in visual arts and culture.
Questions about our new program? Please reach out to Christine Collins: ccollins4@lesley.edu
