Art Practice
School of Humanities and Sciences
Immerse yourself in the craft, culture, and theory of current fine art practices, prepare for a successful career as a visual artist.
What You'll Study
The Art Practice program offers production-based courses founded on the concepts, skills and cultural viewpoints that characterize contemporary art practice. Our goal is to educate students, both majors and minors, in the craft, culture, and theory of current fine art practices to prepare them for successful careers as artists. The studio program is designed to develop in-depth skills in more than one area of the visual arts. It emphasizes the expressive potential of an integration of media, often via a cross-disciplinary, interactive path. Through collaboration and connections with scientists, engineers, and humanities scholars, the program addresses a breadth of topical and artistic concerns central to a vital undergraduate education. Students are exposed to a range of practices early in their development in order to have a good basis of comparison if they choose to focus on a particular medium. This sequence of courses also broadens the students’ skills and enables them to combine materials and methods. In all courses students are expected to pass mid term and final reviews and critiques of their work.
Degrees Offered
- BA
- Minor
- Honors
More Information
Learn more about Art Practice in the Stanford Bulletin
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Exploratory Courses
ARTSTUDI 130
Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino (ARTSTUDI 231A)
ARTSTUDI 131
ARTSTUDI 140
ARTSTUDI 141S
ARTSTUDI 145
ARTSTUDI 147
Art Book Object (ARTSTUDI 247A)
ARTSTUDI 148
ARTSTUDI 148A
ARTSTUDI 148P
The Hybrid Print (ARTSTUDI 248P)
ARTSTUDI 151
ARTSTUDI 155
ARTSTUDI 163
Drawing with Code (ARTSINST 142)
ARTSTUDI 167
ARTSTUDI 168
ARTSTUDI 169
Virtual Reality: the possibility and peril of immersive artwork
ARTSTUDI 171
ARTSTUDI 177