Drawing & Painting | B.F.A. | M.F.A. |
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 workÑthings they would normally have to pursue individually.
