[Art-Region10] Welcome to the Department of Art

[Patti Doster]

Welcome to the Department of Art

Cultivate your imagination and resourcefulness through the Texas A&M University-Commerce Department of Art.

As an art student at A&M-Commerce, you'll build a strong foundation of practical knowledge-in the natural sciences, humanities, mathematics, history, political science, the arts, and the behavioral and social sciences to develop as a well-rounded individual. This foundation prepares you to explore your personal vision through increasingly specialized study of visual mediums. World-class professors who are also accomplished artists will work closely with you to help you develop the skills, versatility, and experience you need to achieve success in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Mission Statement: The Department of Art inspires and prepares students to excel in the art profession, including the fine and applied arts, art history, and art teaching fields and also expands the educational experiences of non-majors.

Arts Opportunities
Our arts curriculum includes carefully crafted sequences of art classes designed to build upon basic skills and help students develop mastery at advanced levels. All A&M-Commerce students, whether they pursue degrees in teaching, fine art, or applied art, benefit from this integration of general and specialized courses.

State-of-the-art Facilities
New, spacious, and well-equipped art facilities are housed in four different buildings on campus. In addition, our communication arts program uses top-of-the-line facilities in Dallas at the Universities Center at Dallas (UCD). In Commerce, you'll have access to:

  *   One of the finest ceramics facilities in the Southwest
  *   12,000 square-foot photography studio, darkroom, and digital imaging space
  *   A specialized sculpture lab equipped with wood and steel tools and a foundry for metal casting
  *   Painting studios, a wood shop, critique galleries, north-light drawing studios, and a state-of-the-art digital imaging lab
  *   The University Gallery, which schedules an annual season of exhibitions
  *   Four state of the art computer labs


The Department of Art offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum in the visual arts leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts. Subsequent acceptance into the graduate program allows students to pursue the degrees of Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts. Majors receive broad-based instruction in the foundation areas and proceed through increasingly specialized programs of study that emphasize personal concepts and technical refinement.

The Bachelor of Arts degree is offered in Art. Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees are offered in Studio Arts with emphasis areas in Ceramics, Experimental Studies, Painting, Photography or Sculpture. The BFA is also offered in Visual Communication with Emphasis in Art Direction, Design, New Media and Photography..

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communication prepares students for careers in the advertising industry. Advanced courses in these areas are offered at the Universities Center at Dallas, where new facilities, field trips and internships keep students abreast of the latest trends and technologies in the rapidly growing field of Communication Arts.

The Department of Art utilizes several buildings on campus for its many different programs and courses, including the University Gallery, which hosts an annual series of exhibits of interest to the University and the surrounding area.


Joseph Daun, Head of the Department of Art

Texas A&M University, Commerce


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