Post Baccalaureate Program Curriculum

The Post Baccalaureate program is a one-year, studio-based curriculum of graduate level study in studio art, designed to improve the artistic abilities of every participant during an uninterrupted period of accelerated effort.

Each student is assigned a private studio, a program Advisor and a team of Faculty Critics. Students and faculty meet regularly to assess each student's artistic needs. Every artwork is understood within its particular genre, with special attention to subject, form, content and the use of materials, skills, techniques and images.

In addition to individual studio critiques with each Faculty Critic, group critiques with everyone in attendance are an integral part of the learning process. Every week, Post Baccalaureate students participate in two seminars: one in readings, research, aesthetics and criticism, and another in drawing. In consultation with the faculty, students may also elect courses in Graduate Painting, plus studio courses within the Academy's renowned Certificate program.

Our drawing courses embrace all manner and media, and are central to the graduate curriculum. The discussion seminars are intended to stimulate the intellectual rigor with which to refine, and redefine, the artistic interests of the participants. Ultimately, all of these seminars are meant to serve the needs of studio art making.

A Certificate of Completion is awarded upon the successful conclusion of both semesters of course work.

Post Baccalaureate Curriculum

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