Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Studio Art] From Sweet Briar College

Students take courses across a range of media. In the process of learning to create art, Sweet Briar women learn about the joyous, challenging process of making something important. Sweet Briar offers courses in drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, etching, stone lithography, printmaking and installation.

Sweet Briar?s rigorous?capstone experience for studio art seniors is a group exhibition in a Sweet Briar gallery. Much of the artwork for the senior art exhibition is generated for Senior Seminar, a critique forum for majors. The experience incorporates training in all aspects of?the students? senior show ? from preparing their work to designing the invitations and collaborating with the catering department. An outside art professor or professional artist attends the exhibition to lead an oral defense and discussion of the students? work.

Students benefit from Sweet Briar?s partnership with the neighboing?Virginia Center for the Creative Arts?(VCCA), an internationally renowned artists? colony for the visual, literary and performing arts.