To see far is one thing;
Going there is another.
- Constantine Brancusi
In the Art Department students see and do -- they learn to think about art and to make it. Everything we do -- whether in the studio, classroom, on field trips, or in conversation over lunch -- in finding effective connections between seeing and doing, and between thinking and communicating.
"To see far"
Sight is more than visual scanning. Seeing leads to insight as well as sight, envisioning as well as reporting. An artist sees what could be as well as what is.
"Going there"
Learning in the art department is an intense, "hands-on" process. Our students learn by doing -- by making art and evaluating the technical, theoretical, and critical processes involved. At the end of four years of work and study, each student can function as his or her own best teacher, critic, and resource.
The Visual and Liberal Arts
At Bridgewater the visual arts are studied and produced as integral parts of the larger liberal arts curriculum of the college. Art students acquire the skills and concepts associated with a variety of visual media, including ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, and sculpture, utilizing both traditional materials and studio approaches and new and experimental median and sensibilities.
The hands-on approach of the art department is supported and expanded by studies in other disciplines included in the General Education curriculum. Art students develop skills and knowledge in depth and breadth, becoming whole and educated persons who are visually sensitive, competent and creative. In broader contexts, they are well informed, critically alert, and verbally articulate individuals.
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