Pacific's broad-based professional art program is intended to provide you with options in the art field and provides strong foundational and interdisciplinary education so you can develop a professional-level portfolio.
Our program helps you develop esthetic knowledge, 知觉 awareness and creative problem solving skills.
With a BFA degree from Pacific, you will develop the conceptual, 知觉, technical and professional skills necessary to be a practicing artist who thinks critically and historically, 有效地沟通, and acts responsibly in our global society.
By performing a variety of outreach services both in the Stockton community and abroad, you will produce a legacy of community awareness and pride. Our students regularly accept graduate appointments and professional positions in their respective fields.
Six student artists transformed a 1982 BMW 320 into a work of art, following the same road paved by celebrated artists such as Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder and Roy Lichtenstein. Along the way, students learned about the rich history of the automobile as an art form.
卡丽 is the Literary and Arts magazine of Pacific. It is produced by the Humanities Center, through the collaborative efforts of English and art students under the mentorship of Professors Courtney Lehmann (English) and Brett DeBoer (Art).
Students 丹尼尔Thomasson and Mia Arostigui worked with 弧, a center in Stockton for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to develop projects that put a fresh spin on the work clients were already doing by introducing new materials or changing out tools.
Pacific art students were contracted by the Heinz North America Corporation to produce a cycle of four mural 油漆ings to be installed in its newly constructed 研究 and Development Labs in Stockton.
Solve communication problems, including the skills of problem identification, re搜索 and information gathering, 分析, generation of alternative solutions, prototyping and user testing, 以及结果的评估.
Describe and respond to the audiences and contexts, which communication solutions must address, including recognition of the physical, 认知, 文化, and social human factors that shape 设计 decisions.
Create and develop visual form in response to communication problems, including an understanding of principles of visual organization/ composition, 信息层次结构, color theory and its applications, 符号表示, 排版, 画, 美学, and the construction of meaningful messages in two and three dimensions.
独立 select and use appropriate art and 设计-related tools and technology to create, 繁殖, and distribute coherent and meaningful visual messages. Relevant tools and technologies include, 但不限于, 画, 插图, 摄影, 胶印, time-based and interactive 媒体 (film, video, 计算机多媒体).
独立, interactively as well as collaboratively engage in art/设计 professional practices to effectively organize and manage art/设计 projects in studio, entrepreneurial and corporate setting.
Form and defend value judgments about art and 设计 including communicating key concepts, visual approaches and requirements to professionals and laypersons related to projects and practice.
应用历史, 当前的问题, 流程, and directions in the art and graphic 设计 field to projects.
应用 ethical reasoning to create sustainable, and socially and 环境ally responsible art and 设计 solutions.
Add a creative balance to your degree. 学会画画, 油漆, 设计, 照片, 雕刻, 三维模型, 动画, 设计的服装, craft virtual worlds and exhibits — using contemporary and traditional techniques. Gain an artistic edge that will complement your major, no matter what it is.
The art history minor is 设计ed for students who wish to augment their major with a series of courses that study the art traditions in world culture. Enjoy broad survey courses that study history from ancient to modern, or take specialty courses that focus on specific time periods, 媒介, 或者艺术运动, 媒体, 性能与设计.
