Undergraduate | BFA

Visual Arts

Installation artwork featuring a dense cluster of brightly coloured paper flowers in pink, yellow, orange, green and purple, suspended in the centre of a rectangular frame. Surrounding the flowers are radiating black wires arched in curved patterns, creating a dynamic contrast between the vibrant blooms and the dark structural lines.
Undergraduate | BFA

Visual Arts

Overview

Unbridled creativity meets unparalleled resources.

This major offers a comprehensive visual arts education for creatively motivated students. Customize your studies as you discover your strengths in five core visual arts disciplines: Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Print Media and Sculpture + Expanded Practices.

Gain professional skills with expert faculty, dedicated studios, and a dynamic creative community.

Two people in black clothing work side by side on large charcoal drawings taped to a wall. One person stands on the floor while the other is on a step ladder, both adding details to expressive, large-scale figurative and abstract works.

Explore the Core Visual Arts Disciplines:

Close-up of hands trimming a clay vessel on a pottery wheel. A carving tool peels away thin strips of clay as the rounded form spins, with shavings scattered on the wheel’s surface.

Ceramics

Drawing

Person in a pink shirt and cap sits at a paint-splattered desk, smiling and extending their tattooed arm. Art supplies and colourful paintings surround the workspace.

Painting

Person with pink hair in braids operates a large printmaking press in a studio. They wear a patterned apron and turn the handle to run a print through the press.

Print Media

Broken red egg shells scattered across a burlap cloth and dark surface, with fragments and pieces spread around.

Sculpture + Expanded Practices

Bonus: Additionally, you’ll have the chance to explore many other practices too, including illustration, performance, photography, New Media + Sound Art and curatorial practices.

What You’ll Learn

Engage in an interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes both technical proficiency and conceptual development. Through hands-on studio courses, you’ll master various mediums while exploring their historical, cultural and commercial significance.

Critical studies courses will enhance your ability to analyze and contextualize art, fostering a deeper understanding of its role in society.

Collaborative projects and exhibitions will refine your professional practices, preparing you to navigate the contemporary art world confidently. 

Program Highlights

  • Explore five core areas: Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Print Media and Sculpture + Expanded Practices.
  • Expand your practice through interdisciplinary learning: illustration, performance, photography, curatorial studies and more.
  • Shape your studies to align with your artistic and career goals.
  • Study with practicing artists and industry leaders who provide mentorship.
  • Build a strong portfolio for exhibitions, graduate studies, or careers in contemporary art.
Person wearing glasses shapes a clay vessel on a pottery wheel, using a tool to refine the surface. The ceramics studio is visible in the background.
Student in orange dress leads a discussion in front of a wall covered in colorful doodles, text, and sketches, holding a pink notebook.
Close-up of a person drawing on a large sheet of paper with charcoal. Their hand is shading a leaf in a detailed black and white botanical illustration, while other leaves and stems fill the background.
Person sits at a cluttered desk operating a knitting machine. Spools of yarn, swatches of fabric and reference notes are spread around the workspace.
Two people operate a Risograph printer in a studio filled with colourful printed posters on the walls. Freshly printed artwork is laid out on a nearby table.
Student wearing safety goggles using a blowtorch to heat metal in a workshop.
Student painting on a canvas at an easel in a studio, holding a brush while referencing an image on a tablet nearby.

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