BFA Programs
Montserrat College of Art offers Bachelor of Fine Arts programs for every kind of artist. Our interdisciplinary approach to BFA curriculum encourages experimentation both in and outside of your chosen concentration; it’s designed to make the most of your talents and prepare you for success throughout your career.
BFA Concentrations
- Animation
- Art Education
- Book Arts
- Games, Toys, & Play
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Interdisciplinary Arts
- Painting
- Photo, Video, & Film
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Writing & Visual Narratives
Minors
Animation
The Animation curriculum focuses on fostering the understanding of team-based and individual film creation, as well as creative storytelling through motion, acting, and draftsmanship
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Art Education
The Art Education program prepares students for their own artistic practice and gives them the tools to support and develop the creative abilities of students in schools and community settings.
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Book Arts
Book Arts covers all aspects of book creation, including writing, image creation, editing, design, typesetting, preparation of images for reproduction, printing and binding.
Learn MoreGames, Toys, & Play
Games, Toys, Play encompasses everything from video games and VR to plushies and puppets. Students learn to design and fabricate worlds, characters, artifacts, activities, and experiences for fun, sensory therapy, education, and community building.
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Graphic Design
Our Graphic Design program offers courses designed to teach designers how to capture ideas and structure information using type, images and sound for a variety of platforms.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS
Allows students to incorporate various departments throughout the college. Students develop a coherent aesthetic sensibility that addresses their chosen form of expression.
Learn MoreIllustration
Montserrat’s Illustration Department has served as the foundation for many accomplished published illustrators, authors, art directors and award-winning designers.
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Painting
Painting students explore a range of media and build formal, technical, and conceptual skills while also developing their personal vision.
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Photography students explore a full range of still- and time-based imaging tools, materials, and concepts.
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Printmaking
Printmakers analyze, transform and replicate information using design, drawing, painting, book arts, letterpress, video, and often sculpture and installation.
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Sculpture
The sculpture concentration encourages a range of expression including object making, multi-media assemblage, performance, and installation work.
Learn MoreWriting and Visual Narratives
This new concentration blends writing and art making with world building and character development with visual image-making and language.
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