Fine Arts - Finger Lakes Community College

Fine Arts from Finger Lakes Community College is a Campus Associate Fine Art degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. The Associate in Science degree in Fine Arts at Finger Lakes Community College is designed to help students develop artistic knowledge and proficiency and prepare for transfer to a four-year institution as a junior-level art major. Course work includes art history, design, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and ceramics. Students develop portfolios that demonstrate their abilities in a variety of media. The program provides students with an opportunity to expand their cultural awareness of the arts through exhibitions, course work, visiting artists, guest speakers, museum visits, and related activities. Field trips to a variety of locations are planned throughout the year, including trips to galleries, museums, and other colleges such as The Clark Institute, Everson Museum, Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, and a number of museums in New York City. Facilities available to students include the Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34, a campus gallery for student, faculty and visiting artists exhibits; drawing and painting studios; a sculpture foundry; darkroom; and computer labs. Students can also showcase their works in ?Windows,? an annual publication that features juried student art work. Graduates of the program are prepared to transfer to pursue bachelor's degrees at fouryear institutions such as SUNY Brockport, Geneseo, Buffalo, Albany, Fredonia, New Paltz, and Purchase; The School of Visual Arts; Rhode Island School of Design; Detroit Center for Creative Studies; and others. Students are advised to consult their advisors or the FLCC Center for Advisement and Personal Development regarding transfer agreements between FLCC and four-year institutions. In addition, FLCC Fine Arts graduates have pursued careers, both nationally and internationally, as professional artists, art educators, or other art-related professions such as gallery directors or museum archivists. The goals of the program are: To provide a challenging fine arts curriculum that will prepare students to successfully transfer to four-year institutions and pursue baccalaureate degrees . To provide students with a historical sense of fine arts through exposure to the works of the great artists. To promote the student's ability to communicate effectively in oral, written, and artistic forms. To develop and sharpen the student's capacity for critical thinking and aesthetic interpretation. To promote and encourage personal creative expression as well as an understanding of the elements involved in the creative process. To introduce to the students the value of studying the cultural achievements of the past, to assist in evaluating the present cultural expressions and the potential for ongoing expression. To develop in students an ability to recognize the differing philosophical and aesthetic values inherent in cultural and fine arts works and to apply that ability to the development of personal values. To develop in students all of the 11 Competencies identified by Finger Lakes Community College as learning outcomes of a liberal education. View more details on Finger Lakes Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Fine Art courses.