Art Studio
Humboldt State’s Art Studio program is geared towards students who desire a career as practicing artists. The program is also an excellent foundation for advanced study at the graduate level.
A Wide Range of Classes
Our studio art program provides you with a broad foundation in the arts through
coursework in art history, drawing, painting and sculpture. These core courses
help develop your technical and creative skills, while also forming a greater
awareness of the history of artistic expression. A series of lower-division
electives also provide you the opportunity to explore a variety of disciplines,
including ceramics, life drawing, graphic design, jewelry and small metals,
photography, and printmaking.
Once you’ve gained a proficiency in the fundamentals, our program provides
you with the flexibility to select upper division work tailored to your passions.
We offer advanced courses in: ceramics, drawing, graphic design, jewelry and
small metals, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Through problem-solving assignments and accompanying instruction, you’ll
learn processes and strategies for creating works of art in various media.
Concentrating on a particular artistic discipline also helps you prepare a
portfolio for further professional opportunities or postgraduate study.
Well Equipped and Readily Available
provide large and well-equipped studio facilities including a fully-outfitted
ceramics lab, a computer lab, photo labs, a sculpture lab, a foundry, large
and small metal fabrication facilities, a printmaking lab, and painting studios.
These resources are readily available to all of our undergraduates—you
won’t have to compete for studio time in our program. In our classes
you’ll receive high-quality, individual attention from the 20 active
artists who make up our faculty.
As a student, you’ll have the opportunity to showcase your own work on campus and in our larger community. HSU students regularly exhibit their work at four viewing spaces on campus and at the First Street Gallery in downtown Eureka. It’s this kind of real-world experience that has helped many of our graduates forge successful careers as working artists. Our alumni have gone on to become professional graphic artists, webpage designers, painters, jewelers, sculptors, illustrators, art historians, museum professionals, photographers, and teachers.
