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 seven core visual arts disciplines: Ceramics, Drawing, New Media + Sound Arts, Painting, Photography, 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

A person wearing a mask stands in front of a massive charcoal drawing on brown paper, depicting two deer with large antlers surrounded by dark, sketchy marks. The figure gently places a hand on one of the deer’s faces.

Drawing

An installation with six small CRT monitors on pedestals, each displaying colorful visuals, with black-and-white abstract imagery projected on the back wall. On the right wall, a vibrant, distorted color projection spills across a branch of leaves arranged on the floor.

New Media + Sound Arts

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

Photographic exhibition showing large portraits of people’s backs and profiles, printed on black backgrounds and suspended from the ceiling in a gallery space.

Photography

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

A pile of broken, matte red eggshells scattered across a rough, dark concrete floor. Many shells are cracked open or shattered into jagged pieces, revealing their hollow interiors. The fragments vary in size, with some larger halves and many smaller shards littering the ground. A coarse, light-colored fabric, possibly burlap, lies partially beneath the shells. In the background, a plain, textured wall meets the floor at a corner, creating a stark, minimalist setting that emphasizes the vivid red of the broken shells.

Sculpture + Expanded Practices

Bonus: Additionally, you’ll have the chance to explore many other practices too, including illustration and performance.

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 seven core areas: Ceramics, Drawing, New Media + Sound Arts, Painting, Photography, Print Media and Sculpture + Expanded Practices.
  • Expand your practice through interdisciplinary learning: illustration, performance, 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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