The painting program at the University of Kansas provides students not only
with a strong technical and creative foundation, but also with the opportunity
to explore the endless number of paths the painting medium can lead an artist.
In the first levels of painting, students learn to apply skills they acquired
in Foundations, including drawing, design concepts and color theory using
the paint medium, while learning to consider and develop the content of
their work.
As students progress into the upper levels of the painting program,
with the assistance of their professors, they learn to determine
their own decision-making processes when dealing with such issues
as form, content, materials and presentation.
In addition to the beginning and advanced painting courses offered
every semester, professors also provide courses that coincide with
their own research interests, such as Painting As Process and a
Traditional Technologies Workshop. As a result, students are exposed
to methods, concepts and techniques, such as working collaboratively
or learning how to make encaustic, egg tempera, or fresco from scratch,
and use it in their work—things they would normally have to
pursue individually.
Painting B.F.A. degree check sheet
For more information about the MFA in Painting, click here.
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