Bachelor of Fine Arts with Studio Arts Major

About this programme

Project-based course work, creative research, visiting artists, off-campus activities and arts and culture venues—as a Studio Arts major at MacEwan University, you receive a truly hands-on education. Let your artistic expression soar, while learning to manage the many paths your career will take you. Our dedicated faculty maintain a range of professional art and research practices, sharing their skills in performance and sound art, painting, drawing, video, sculpture, fibres and more. In this interdisciplinary environment, you are challenged to think critically and creatively about contemporary art. After building a rigorous and comprehensive foundation in the first two years of the program, you can choose from three pathways in the Studio Arts major: The technical and theoretical foundations supporting each pathway prepare you for both traditional and emerging media and concepts. Starting in the fourth term, you choose to focus in one area or to combine paths for greater breadth. As you progress academically and develop interdisciplinary skills prevalent in contemporary art practice, you also take courses from the other arts and communications disciplines. In your final term, you undertake a project that prepares you for a professional contemporary art practice, a career in the arts or future studies at the graduate level.