Fine Arts – Studio Arts
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Highlights
Facilities
The Julio Fine Arts Center houses studios for design, drawing, watercolor and ceramics. The picturesque Maroger Art Studio, a replica of an actual Parisian studio, serves as the site for many of the advanced offerings in painting and drawing. Printmaking courses are offered in the Justin Ocher House.
The Julio Fine Arts Gallery, which features six exhibitions per year (included a juried student exhibition at the close of the academic year), provides exposure for professional artists and for Loyola students and faculty.
Program Description
Loyola’s studio arts program seeks to develop each student’s ability to record visual observations, to nurture the beginning of a personal style and to deepen visual and aesthetic perception. Students can major in Visual Arts with a concentration in studio arts; they may elect to minor or pursue studio courses as part of an interdisciplinary major. Our students have established themselves in such professions as art education, art therapy, graphic design or freelance art. This program also establishes the basis for advanced undergraduate art studies and entrance to a master’s program at an accredited art college.
Curriculum
Students gain a solid base with Two-Dimensional Design and Drawing I. Two-Dimensional Design focuses on the essential elements of design: line, shape, color theory, texture and integrity. Drawing I explores basic principles through line and tone in pencil and charcoal as students learn to draw in a manner that mirrors visual reality. Students concentrating in studio arts complete three art history courses: a survey of art from the Paleolithic age to the Gothic era, another from the Renaissance to the Modern era and a third course of their choice.
The majority of the program consists of upper-division advanced electives. Students design the overall focus of their major by choosing eight upper-division electives from a varied list of courses in drawing, painting and digital media. The Artist’s Survival Seminar shows students how to build a professional portfolio, to mat and frame work and to enter professional exhibitions. In the senior year, students may elect to complete a Senior Project under the direction of a faculty member. With proposals approved during the junior year, students work on their project both semesters of their senior year and receive credit for one of the upper-level electives.
Students minoring in studio arts or wishing to design an interdisciplinary major take Two-Dimensional Design and Drawing I along with four additional upper-division courses and one art history course. The Artist’s Survival Seminar is recommended.
Faculty
Mary Beth Akre
Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Studio Arts Program
B.A., Loyola College in Maryland
B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art
M.F.A., Radford University
Mary Atherton
Associate Professor, Professor Emeritus
B.F.A., M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art
Christopher Lonegan
Affiliate Instructor
B.F.A., University of the Arts
Day Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
M.F.A., Maryland Institute, Hoffberger School
Janet Maher
Associate Professor
B.S., Southern Connecticut State College
M.A., M.F.A., University of New Mexico
Carol Miller-Frost
Director, Loyola College Art Gallery
Affiliate Instructor
B.S., Frostburg State University
M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art
Course Sequence
1st year
Two-Dimensional Design
Drawing I
Core courses (6)
General electives (2)
2nd year
Art History Surveys I and II
Core courses (4)
General electives (2)
Upper-level major courses (2)
3rd year
Art History
Upper-level major courses (4)
Core courses (4)
General elective
4th year
Upper-level major courses (3)
Core courses (3)
General electives (4)
Following is a sampling of courses students can take to fulfill upper-level major course requirements:
Book Arts and Artists’ Books
Clay
Digital Art
Intaglio Printmaking
Landscape Drawing
Life Drawing
Mixed Media
Painting I and II
Portraits
Relief Printmaking
Watercolor
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