art and design
grand valley state university
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Student work
INTRODUCTION
The degree programs integrate the values of a liberal education while preparing graduates for intensive engagement with the production and examination of the visual arts.
The earliest string model, the bosonic string, incorporated only the class of particles known as bosons. This model describes, at low
we guide students in exploring and developing their individual sense of place as human beings in relationship to the world around them. enough energies, a quantum gravity theory, which also includes gauge bosons such as the photon. However, this model has problems.
INTRO
who will you become?
ba, bs, bfa degrees art education art history studio art ceramics graphic design illustration jewelry / metalsmithing painting printmaking sculpture visual studies
FACULTY
supporting students in a challenging and exciting transition from learning in the classroom to learning in personal and professional worlds.
At GVSU, the professors are
All of our majors and minors
dedicated to their roles as
benefit from working with faculty
teachers, artists, and scholars.
members who are professionally
We value our place as educators
active in the scholarly and creative
to help ready students for their
communities. Why should this
professions and lives after
matter to students? The questions
graduation. Small class sizes,
and ideas that fuel the faculty’s
academic advisors who are
research efforts translate into
faculty in the art department, and
enthusiasm for the material that
energetic collaboration between
they teach, respect for inquiry,
different emphasis areas means
and an awareness of diversity in
that professors know you as a
current practices.
person and a student.
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The earliest string model, the bosonic string, incorporated only the class of particles known as bosons. This model describes, at low
enough energies, a quantum gravity theory, which also includes gauge bosons such as the photon. However, this model has problems.
PLACE
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Calder Art Center
Lake Michigan
Chicag
FOUNDATIONS
first year students take six core classes building foundational drawing, design, and problem-solving skills
STUDENT TRAJECTORY
Students choose a specialization from one of the eight studio emphasis areas or the art education program.
All majors submit the body of work completed in the foundation courses for review. The graphic design and illustration programs require a secondary admissions process.
BEYOND
SENIOR REVIEW
JUNIOR REVIEW
FOUNDATIONS REVIEW
SELECTIVE ADMISSION
Remember judge and you shall be judged for laughing in school, for being stupid and always wrong. penance like the scent of the sheep is slow O’ weary, its coat a kind of fluff that goes up in filament theory. your own life ahead follows you like a scientist posing as a shepherd. Fanny Howe, 1940
Painting 2nd floor
Main Office Entrance
Visual Studies Graphic Design
Facilities overview Digital Print Shop
Visual Resources Library
Illustration Metals
Art History
Ceramics Woodshop Sculpture
Foundations
Remember judge and you shall be judged for laughing in school, for being stupid and always wrong. penance like the scent of the sheep is slow O’ weary, its coat a kind of fluff that goes up in filament theory. your own life ahead follows you like a scientist posing as a shepherd. Fanny Howe, 1940
ALUMNI
80% of our alumns are either employed or working in the field
50% of our alumns go on to further their fine arts education
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New Perspectives and experience advantageous in any professional field
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Art History
Art Education
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Ceramics
Graphic Design
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Painting
Printmaking
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Jewelry / Metalsmithing
Sculpture Nam, quos quam
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Visual Studies Nam, quos quam alibusapero quodis debis alia arum quam estioss equiasi tatempori Nam, quos quam alibusapero quodis debis alia arum quam estioss equiasi tatempori