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Grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, Elmira College provides a collaborative and supportive environment that enables students to become active learners, effective leaders, responsible community members, and globally engaged citizens.
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Looking for a small, close-knit campus filled with incredible, hands-on learning opportunities? Our Admissions Office can help make Elmira College YOUR place.
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When you earn your bachelor’s degree in Art from Elmira College, you’ll gain the tools to express your creative voice and build a lifelong professional career in the arts.
Elmira College's Art degree program is about finding your creative voice and channeling it into a successful future. With four areas of study, you'll specialize your creative talents to fit any industry. Your professors are artists in their own right, with decades of experience that they bring into the classroom and studio. In addition to your professors' guidance, you'll have access to well-equipped, spacious studios and computer labs to put your theory and artistic eye into practice.
Are you interested in Art but pursuing another major? A minor in Art or Digital Art & Graphic Design minor might be the perfect fit.
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You will develop more than just your own artistic skills – you will also learn critical thinking, communication, analysis, and problem-solving. The Art degree program at Elmira also ensures that by graduation, you'll have developed a portfolio of work to showcase to potential employers. Graduates of our Art program have gone on to become teachers, professional artists, illustrators, designers, art handlers, gallery managers, and curators. And many students at Elmira choose to double major in art/business, art/psychology, art/anthropology, art/English, or art/history.
Your artwork can help you pay for college! Find out how through our new portfolio-based Art scholarship.
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Developed in coordination with a licensed art therapist, Art Therapy is a 21-credit hour concentration that combines art and psychotherapy.
The Digital Art and Graphic Design program merges creative thinking with technical skills, giving you the visual communications skills in demand in marketing, advertising, social media, theatrical production, and online publishing careers.
The Digital Art and Product Design program is for anyone who wants to design beautiful and functional products that delight consumers.
The Studio Art program will give you the fundamentals needed for post-graduate study or professional employment, providing you the flexibility to pair your studies with other disciplines, broadening the range of opportunities you can pursue in and after Elmira College.
From art director to museum curator, there are countless career paths that will allow you to flex your creative muscles and build a professional career.
Art students have a number of internship opportunities at Elmira.
Our professors are eager to help you excel in your studies and hone your creative expression.
Do you have questions about the Art program? Please contact us.
