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Special Features Bobbitt Visual Arts Center houses the Department of Art and Art History, as well as two galleries, a public auditorium and exhibition spaces for the College art collection and student work. Its spacious and well-equipped facilities include painting and drawing studios; a complete photography lab with a studio and darkrooms that support black and white, color and digital photography; and a printmaking studio where students explore lithography, intaglio, relief and letterpress printing. The sculpture studios comprise a complete woodshop, a welding lab and areas for stone carving and other types of three dimensional production. Students studying ceramics work in spacious studios for throwing, handbuilding and slip casting, and fire their work in electric, raku and gas reduction-fired or wood kilns. Art students have 24-hour access to the general studios. The department houses a computer arts lab, dedicated solely to the visual arts. The lab is fully equipped with computers, scanners, digital cameras, color printers and a digital video editing suite. Computer technology is integrated into studio courses as an art-making tool, and into art history courses as a way to access distant museums and sites and as a tool of analysis. The Bobbitt Visual Arts Center galleries are home to 12 exhibitions each year, offering students a chance to view artworks by contemporary artists and to exhibit their own work. The Martha Dickinson Print Gallery highlights selections from the College's permanent collection of over 2,300 prints dating from the fifteenth century through the twentieth century. The Elsie Munro Gallery hosts changing contemporary art exhibitions. The Philip C. Curtis Artist-in-Residence program enables the department to bring emerging artists to campus every year. Students are encouraged to interact informally and to occasionally collaborate with these talented artists as they produce their work in Bobbitt. Art and art history students often participate in off-campus programs such as the New York Arts Program, in which they work as interns with art professionals, including architects, interior designers, graphic designers, painters, gallery owners, curators, sculptors, photographers, medical illustrators, video and performance artists, and art therapists. Numerous other internships and international study programs offer excellent opportunities for art and art history students. A number of scholarships are awarded to prospective students who have demonstrated achievement in art or art history. These can be renewed each year and are not limited to art or art history majors. In addition, a number of scholarships are available to upper-level art and art history majors who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in their specialty. Requirements for Major Toward B.A. in Art Nine units in studio art, including 121, 201, 271; a minimum of three units from 222, 223, 231, 241, 251, 261; a minimum of two units from courses numbered above the 300 level. One additional unit of studio art. Three units of cognate art history courses, including 111 or 112, 216, and one other unit of art history at the 200 level or above. Majors are required to participate in the senior art majors' exhibition. All courses counted toward the major must be taken for a numerical grade. Requirements for Major Toward B.F.A. in Art Students may be admitted into the B.F.A. program by presenting a portfolio of their work to the art faculty preferably in their sophomore or junior year. Acceptance into the B.F.A. program is based on an evaluation of the portfolio and the student's previous performance in art and art history classes. Once accepted in the B.F.A. program, students are expected to keep up the high quality of their work and must acquire a minimum of a 3.25 grade average in their art courses in order to graduate with a B.F.A degree. The B.F.A. degree requires a minimum of 34 units for graduation. No fewer than 14 and no more than 21 units in studio art, including 121, 201, 271; at least four units from 222, 223, 231, 241, 251, 261; a minimum of seven units from courses numbered above 300. Four units of cognate art history courses, including Art 111 or 112, 216, one other unit of art history at the 200 level, and one other unit of art history at the 300 level or above. B.F.A. candidates are required to participate in the senior art majors' exhibition. Requirements for Major Toward B.A. in Art History A minimum of eight units in art history, including: 111 or 112; 216; at least one unit from 210, 211, 212, 218; at least two units from 213, 214, 215, 217, 219; at least two units from 310, 311, 312, 313, 316. It is recommended that students select at least one unit at the 200 or 300 level from four of the following areas: ancient/classical, medieval, Renaissance, baroque, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, modern and contemporary, American or non-western. One unit of a cognate studio art course. All courses counted toward the art history major at Albion College must be taken for a numerical grade. Courses taken at an approved off-campus program may be substituted for Albion College courses with the permission of the Page 2 of 8 Albion College Catalog 2006-2007 Art and Art History 5/10/2006 http://www.albion.edu/academics/catalog/departments/art.asp

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