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For over 50 years, Brooklyn College’s Art Department has been a leader in creative innovation and scholarship, offering students the tools to thrive in today’s dynamic art world. With expert faculty, state-of-the-art studios, and a vibrant gallery showcasing diverse artistic voices, we provide an immersive education in studio art, digital media, and art history. Whether you aspire to exhibit your work, teach, or shape cultural conversations, our programs combine rigorous training with hands-on experience to prepare you for a successful career in the arts.
Undergraduate Courses Graduate Courses What You Can Do With An Art Degree Advisement Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA)
Lois Dodd: Artist, Teacher, Mentor (Panel Discussion)
Lois Dodd: Artist, Teacher, Mentor
Through high-quality curated exhibitions, the Art Gallery at Brooklyn College showcases an array of works across media that introduce a rich diversity of professional artistic practices of local and diasporic artists.
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A major exhibition celebrating the work of renowned painter and longtime Brooklyn College faculty member Lois Dodd
February 3–March 25
This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue have been made possible through the generous support of the Walter Cerf Estate and the Donald E. ’40 and Edith S. Peiser Exhibition Series Fund.
Artwork: Red Maple, Blairstown, 1998, by Lois Dodd. Courtesy: Alexandre Gallery, New York.
Our art faculty include internationally recognized artists whose works appear in such prestigious museums as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Art and Design, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Faculty murals and public art commissions can be found across the country, from subway stops to college campuses.
Running February 18–April 19, “Art X Fashion” explores the dynamic relationship between fashion and fine art through more than 140 objects.
New exhibit will showcase the work of longtime faculty member and renowned painter.
Group exhibition challenges the culture of constant visibility through art that celebrates resistance, ambiguity, and refusal.
Our facilities include painting and drawing rooms, darkroom photography, sculpture studios (in ceramics, wood, and metal), spacious digital labs, a state-of-the-art printmaking shop, a polymedia lab, design studio, and the Meier Bernstein Art Library. Students can study digital art in a focused concentration. We provide our students with a solid foundation while constantly updating our course offerings to reflect the ever-changing field. Experimental courses include fabric art, interactive media, and cartoon illustration. Students can opt to expand their studies through our B.F.A. program. We champion a diverse understanding of art history, with an emphasis on global art and interdisciplinary connections. Our art history courses feature multiple forms of artistic expression, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, visual culture, and fashion.
We pride ourselves on introducing our diverse student body to a wide variety of artistic studio practices and innovative art historical scholarship and training them for successful careers in these areas. To this end we facilitate numerous internships and opportunities for professional development. We support our students by funding annual awards for artists and art historians. B.F.A. students exhibit together in various venues for their culminating capstone project. Art history majors present their capstone research in a lively public symposium. The most successful of these papers have been subsequently published.
The Art Department strives to create a learning community that acknowledges, values, and celebrates diversity in all its forms, including race, gender, religion, sexuality, cultural heritage, and differing physical and linguistic abilities. Inspired by the activism of our students, in fall 2020 the department created the Anti-Racist and Inclusivity Committee to ensure these values are being upheld by our students, staff, and faculty and that necessary changes continue to be made.
Department Chair: Mona Hadler
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