Art and Design

The Art Program at Alma College covers a wide range of visual disciplines. Students are encouraged to take advantage of the close student-faculty relationships and the excellent undergraduate studio facilities in the Clack Art Center to design programs suited to their own needs and those of their profession—or simply to explore art.

Two major programs are offered by the Art and Design Department. The Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree is a pre-professional program in studio art or design. The B.F.A. is offered in the areas of ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and three-dimensional design.

The Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree program provides a more general study suitable for those wishing to teach in the public schools. Graduates of Alma’s Art and Design programs find career opportunities in such fields as advertising, design, illustration, museum work, photography, printing and teaching.

 

Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term 2012, students observed lizards in Bermuda, studied modern economic development in India, performed dance in Taiwan, examined renewable energy in Europe and investigated medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest.

 

Graduate Profile

Brad Guigar

Brad Guigar
Graduation: 1991
Major: Art and Design

Once the staff cartoonist for the Almanian, Alma College’s student newspaper, Brad Guigar’s art now takes form in a weekly comic strip for the Philadelphia Daily News.

The 1991 graduate also publishes “Evil, Inc.,” an online comic strip about a corporation run by super villains for super villains. It’s read by tens of thousands of people every day.