Teaching art is about initiating total involvement, passion, questioning and questioning the questioning, experimenting, process, investigating ideas, inventing and finding visual answers. With Paris as its extraordinarily rich, cultural setting, the PCA Fine Arts Department promotes the development of artistic skills, the expression of creative processes, and an informed awareness of how art practice intersects with current visual, cultural and societal concerns.
As a student at PCA in this program, you gain a strong foundation in the artistic tradition via both established and new media, thus enriching your capacity for communication and expression. The curriculum balances a full investigation of traditional media: drawing, painting and sculpture, with extensive explorations in video, installation, performance, photography and digital imaging.
Your junior year allows you to choose a 2D, 3D or 4D orientation. Elective courses in other departments offer new and different methods and processes. Interdisciplinary practice provokes students to pursue and develop individual artistic modes of inquiry.
Application of theory and criticism shapes your ability to work and think critically and analytically. Courses in Art History and Critical Studies, critiques, debates and tutorials, and the considerable resources available in Paris, direct you to an informed exploration within both historical and contemporary art practices.
Museum and gallery visits are an integral aspect of the curriculum and create a boundless fine arts learning experience. Students in Pathways to Paris take two semesters of Drawing. This course is an introduction to dimensions in art and design 2D, 3D, and Photography through material processes.
