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Digital and Studio Art

Digital and Studio Art Major

Bachelor of Arts

You'll unleash your creativity in countless media with the digital and studio art major. This major focuses on the development of creative, technical, formal and critical skills in digital, traditional, and hybridized art forms, with three concentrations which guide students toward building high level skills in a specific medium.

Your coursework is grounded in hands-on learning experiences, creative challenges, and abundant peer and faculty feedback. As you study, you'll build the broad critical skills central to the liberal arts and become familiar with a wide range of artists and designers as you develop your ability to frame their works in historical and critical contexts.

Whether you intend to establish a career as a professional artist, with the studio arts concentration, find a career on the cutting edge of technology and art with the graphic and interactive design concentration, or become an expert in the tools for photography and audiovisual production with the media arts concentration, the digital and studio art major is your first step to making your goals a reality.

Digital and studio art program details

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Opportunities for student research and engaged learning

At Hamline, students participate in community engagement and research with faculty as early as their first year, something usually reserved for graduate students at other institutions. You'll design and conduct your own project based on your individual interests and goals.

The list of possible projects is as varied as our students. For example, picture yourself:

  • Producing a film with a small production team
  • Building websites for local nonprofits and businesses
  • Creating multimedia content and designs for campus publications, athletic teams, student organizations, marketing and communications offices, and theatre and music performances
  • Building immersive media content, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360° video
  • Sharing your creative work with the community in public screenings and exhibitions, including the annual Open Studios and Senior Show exhibitions
  • Developing an online creative portfolio to share with potential employers, clients, and graduate programs

During your research process, you’ll collaborate with professionals in a variety of fields and academics at major research institutions; publish your research in scientific journals; and present your work at local, regional, and national conferences.
 

Learn more about undergraduate research at Hamline 

Internships for digital and studio art students

We make sure you leave Hamline with work experience in digital media or studio arts on your resume. And the opportunities are boundless. Whether you want to explore a career in art, graphic design, user experience, entertainment, or more, we have internship opportunities for you.

Examples of past digital media and studio arts student internships include:

  • Activated Growth Marketing, design intern
  • Caponi Art Park and Learning Center, program and event intern
  • Cave Paper, intern
  • Federal Reserve Bank, graphic design intern
  • Midnight Paper Sales, print studio intern
  • Minnesota Children's Museum, maker space education intern
  • Minnesota Children's Museum, multimedia documentation intern
  • Press Matter, printmaking intern
  • Propellant Media, pre-production intern
  • Target, brand product design and management intern
  • The Current, digital team intern
  • Tremendous Entertainment, production intern
  • Urban Arts Academy, graphic design intern
  • Walker Art Center, gallery assistant

Explore career paths

Our innovative courses and one-on-one mentoring by faculty will give you the tools to succeed in a variety of jobs, such as:

  • Art director
  • Gallery curator
  • Graphic designer
  • Interactive experience designer
  • Digital content creator
  • Digital marketing specialist
  • Multimedia artist
  • Production artist
  • Web designer

You can also put your degree to work in any number of fields, including:

  • Arts administration
  • Arts education 
  • Audience engagement
  • Digital fabrication
  • Graphic design
  • Museum curation
  • Photography 
  • Sound design
  • Video production
  • Web design

Take your studies further with graduate school

Our graduates have gone on to graduate schools across the country in the pursuit of master’s and doctoral degrees. Examples of programs and schools include:

  • MFA in design and technology, University of Texas at Austin
  • MFA in theatre design and technology, University of Illinois
  • Post-graduate certificate in web and data coding, University of Minnesota

Take your first step today