Studio Art Major

Bachelor of Arts Degree

Program Overview

The Art Department at ORU recognizes art is an expression of an individual's beliefs and endeavors to nurture each student's creativity, ability and call to be a Christian artist. Students receive a firm foundation blending creative experiences with a critical knowledge of art past and present. Students selecting the studio arts program study under a faculty composed of professional working artists with numerous works of art on exhibit nationwide. The studio art major offers training in four disciplines--painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking. Students may adapt the major to help prepare them for an alternative teaching certification.

Painting

The painting courses explore traditional to contemporary styles of painting. Students focus on the development of imaginative resources and process through different media as well as explore the aesthetics of both abstraction and observation.

Ceramics
The ceramics program offers students a study of a variety of hand-building techniques. Additional study concentrates on the study of form and the generation of ideas in clay, with an emphasis on the potter's wheel as a tool for the forming of pottery.

Sculpture
Students in the sculpture classes participate in an in-depth study of the design and technical methods of sculpture construction. Emphasizing methods, materials, concepts and artistic style, students develop skills and methods of sculptural formation.

Printmaking
Printmaking develops the student's conceptual and studio skills in media and the processes involved in relief, intaglio, serigraphy and creative printmaking. Printmakers use their skills to generate creative visual art in the printed form.

Facilities

The school provides student use of facilities for painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and digital graphic design.

• Art Technology Lab
  The Art Department maintains the Douglas Latta Computer lab with Macintosh and Windows workstations. This lab is a fully functioning graphics production area, which includes fully networked color inkjet printers. The Art Technology Lab provides removable media with rewritable CD and DVD burners. The latest software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Apple Pro Applications and Maya, supports design classes in print and video degrees.


• Ceramic kilns, glaze room


• Painting and Drawing studio


• Art education classroom


• Etching/relief press and print shop


• Sculpture shop with welding, casting equipment

Outcomes

With a professional degree in art career options include:

• Art administrator
• Artist
• Arts instructor
• Gallery manager
• Illustrator
• Museum worker
• Photographer
• Restorer
• Web designer

What Do You Have To Look Forward To?

Roll up your sleeves and explore color, materials, surfaces, concepts, design, form, composition, methods and artistic style in the course of completing various art projects in a variety of media. Discover your own individual expression as a Christian artist.

Course Offerings Include

• Fundamentals of Art
• Art History
• Color
• Ceramics
• Painting
• Printmaking
• Drawing
• Figure Drawing
• Graphic Design
• Future Media
• Illustration
• Water Media
• Black and White Photography
• Computer Graphics
• Web Design
• Elementary and Secondary Art Methods and Evaluation

Success stories

The highest compliment a professor and an art department can receive is a successful student, and our students are successful!

• Rod (R.E.) Penner is a studio artist represented by O.K. Harris Gallery, N.Y.
• Chad Shelton is the artist who was commissioned to create a 12 ft altarpiece for the new Emanuel Lutheran Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

In addition, the Art Department boasts two dozen designers working in Tulsa alone.

Degree Plan page 1

Degree Plan page 2

Contact

Mr. Nathan Opp
Assistant Professor, Studio Art
918.495.6212
nopp@oru.edu