A liberal arts-based art degree enhances the creative skills
of critical thinking - analysis, evaluation and synthesis - and provides a
strong foundation for graduates to enter numerous fields, including graduate
study and teaching, advertising design, marketing and management and work with
nonprofits, museums or galleries.
In the Workforce
Our graduates have gone on to successful careers in
advertising, marketing and management, museum work and highly visible film and
television enterprises such as MTV and PBS. Others have worked in nonprofits
and public service, with the Peace Corps in Ghana, and as art therapists and
teachers. Our concentrations in studio art and major in interactive
communication technology provide students with coursework in multiple
disciplines, giving them many additional skills to offer a potential employer.
Positions have included:
- Adelphi University, assistant professor
- Creative Circle, creative talent recruiter
- CVS, graphic designer
- FAF Inc., visual design supervisor
- Hasbro, graphic designer
- Honeywell, graphic designer
- LEGO, associate art director
- LX.TV, producer
- Maison d'esprit, photographer
- MTV, avid editor and producer
- Nomenus Quarterly, editor-in-chief
- Pearson Publishing, graphic designer
- PixelMEDIA, interactive designer
- Pratt & Whitney, detail draftsman
- Saatchi and Saatchi, art director
- San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art,
exhibition designer
Graduate School
Our graduates have pursued advanced degrees or certificates
in the arts and related fields at the following institutions:
- Art Institute of Boston
- Boston University
- Brooklyn College
- Cornell University
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts College of Art
- Parsons The New School for Design
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Savannah College of Art and Design
- Simmons College
- Southern Illinois University
- Syracuse University
- University of Minnesota
- University of Texas at Austin