The Art Department at UW-Parkside offers a degree with three options: Digital Arts major, Studio Arts major or a General Arts major. Art students work in well equipped, uncrowded studios with a faculty seriously committed to quality teaching as well as to production, exhibition and publication in their own areas of professional specialization.

Majors: Digital Arts, Studio Arts, General Arts

Studio Art Concentrations: Ceramics, Crafts, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture

Digital Arts Concentrations: Animation, Graphic Design, Illustration, Web Design

Minors: Digital Arts, Studio Arts, Arts Management

Certificates: Art History, Arts Management, Museum Studies (PDF), World Wide Web Publishing, Film Studies

Career Options

Many careers relate to art, a few examples are included below.

Animator Airbrush Artist Art Conservator Art Director Art Historian Art Instructor Arts Administrator Cartoonist Ceramic Artist Commercial Artist

Costume Designer Courtroom Sketcher Digital Artist Exhibit Designer Fine Artist Gallery Director Graphic Designer Illustrator Page Layout Artist Package DesignerÂ

Painter Photographer Printmaker Product Designer Sculptor Set Designer Textile Designer Visual Merchandiser Watercolor Artist Web Designer

 

"Clickable" Career Descriptions, courtesy of OOH

• Advertising, Marketing, Promotions, Public Relations, and Sales Managers
• Artists and Related Workers
• Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
• Commercial and Industrial Designers
• Desktop Publisher
• Fashion Designers
• Graphic Designers
• Motion Picture and Video Industries
• Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
• Photographers
• Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators and Editors
• Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Occupations
• Textile, Textile Product, and Apparel Manufacturing

Next Steps

• Speak with an art student and an art professor
• Take an art course
• Research careers in the art field
• Conduct informational interviews and network with art professionals
• Join UW-Parkside’s Art Club
• Join AIGA-UWP, Parkside's chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts
• Volunteer, intern, or work in an art position

For more information

Art Department, Communication Arts 221, (262) 595-2581

http://www.uwp.edu Keyword: Art

Advising & Career Center, Wyllie D175, (262) 595-2040

http://www.uwp.edu Keyword: Advising