Program Ending
Beginning Fall 2026, applications will no longer be accepted for this program. Please see the new Art, B.A. program, now accepting applications for Fall 2026.
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Explore Your Creative Side
The Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art prepares students to become fluent in the practice of visual arts. Students will gain technical expertise, conceptual rigor, and methods as a means to explore intellectual and human experience through visual arts modes. By taking a core group of foundational studio courses and Art History courses, students explore a studio area or areas of interest, including ceramics, metals and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, allowing students to create a hybrid experience as they apply their artistic interests – and aspects of their broader liberal arts education – to a contemporary studio art practice.
Curriculum and Courses
The Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art allows students to gain technical expertise and conceptual rigor as a means to explore intellectual and human experience through visual arts modes by taking a core group of foundational Studio Art courses and Art History courses. Students explore a studio area or areas of interest in ceramics, metals and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, allowing students to create a hybrid experience as they apply their artistic interests. The Professional Portfolio and Exhibition Experience course, typically taken in the final semester of their senior year, offers a practical professional experience based on current professional practices which culminates with an exhibition of the student’s artwork in the Hiestand Galleries.
- ART 122 Drawing Projects
- ART 231 Painting I
- ART 257 Photography
- ART 261 Ceramics
- ART 492 Professional Artist’s Portfolio and Exhibition Experience
The more you know about a sport, a landscape, it’s going to come out. You’re studying it, focusing on it, you’re learning how a body is going to move, what time the sun will set, and how the clouds will come into play.
Bo Bridges ’96
Additional Opportunities
The Visual Arts Club
Visual Arts Club is a group of student artists committed to professional development and fostering a thriving, interdisciplinary arts community on campus. Our aim is to give art students continued opportunities to have experiences that will prepare them for a future career in creative arts.
Effusions
Effusions is the official student-run art journal of Miami’s Art Department. We promote and publish an annual art journal exemplary of all works, visual and written, from students attending Miami University. Our journal aims to highlight the importance of the visual arts/ study of art on the Miami University campus.
Follow us on Instagram:
@effusions_mu
Study Abroad
Students can participate in the Florence University of the Arts Study Abroad program at The American University of Florence.
Facts and Stats
Your college experience here will be one of the most exciting times of your life. To make sure of this, we’ll provide you with a powerful support system.
First-to-second year retention
Miami University Data
Among Public Universities in the United States for Four-Year Graduation Rate
OIRE
of 2021 CCA graduates employed or pursuing advanced degrees within six months of graduation
Miami University Data
Studio Art Admission Requirements
Students interested in direct admission into the BFA in Studio Art program must submit a portfolio of creative works to the Department of Art for review. Students pursuing the B.A. in Studio Art may be admitted into the program without a portfolio review, but may choose to submit a portfolio for the consideration of a talent-based scholarship. All students submitting a portfolio will automatically be considered for talent-based scholarships.
Contact Us
Rob Robbins
Professor of Studio Art
Department of Art
Art Building 124
400 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-2900
[email protected]