The Studio Art Department provides curricular opportunities for the development of technical skills, aesthetic judgment, and historical understanding. Students who major in art may elect a studio concentration. Majors are expected to enrich their concentration through selected courses offered by other departments.
Express your creativity
As you explore the arts in context of Grinnell’s liberal arts program, you’ll also receive a well-rounded education in the humanities. The studio art major provides an outlet for your creative expression, and you’ll develop an appreciation for the arts through the interdisciplinary lens of other courses of study. As an artist, you’ll learn about and create art using both traditional and non-traditional materials. You’ll also consider what it means to be an artist in the modern world — and find your own answers to this question.
Practical Experience
As a studio art student, you’ll be introduced to the core principles of art-making in a rigorous, hands-on studio program. You’ll have curricular opportunities for the development of technical skills, aesthetic judgment, and historical understanding, and you’ll learn though a series of practical exercises using traditional and digital tools with an emphasis on developing skills, knowledge of materials, methods of observation and translation, collaboration, discussion, and creative discipline.
Social Discourse
Your participation in the studio arts will sharpen your creative potential. You’ll develop aesthetic, technical, and critical skills, as well as analytical and expressive proficiencies. You’ll learn to approach problem-solving with creative solutions. With these skills, you’ll be prepared to contribute creatively to the social and cultural discourses that shape contemporary society.
Jeremy Chen
Sometimes to both students and professors, Grinnell College can feel a little bit like living on an island.
Jeremy Chen, a senior lecturer in Grinnell College’s Art Department, set out to change that with the creation of Stew Art Studios, commonly called “The Stew,” an art studio at 927 Broad St. in downtown Grinnell, where students can share their work and collaborate on art projects with town residents.
Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
1108 Park St
Grinnell, IA 50112
United States
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