A society's artists may be its historians, its philosophers, its priests and confessors, its outlaws or its visionaries. Art may document the artist's world, it may imagine the past or future, or it may express an inner landscape that cannot otherwise be shared. At Hamilton, student and faculty artists explore this rich dynamic by both creating and critiquing works of visual art. Majors explore the significance and meaning art holds in their own lives, and they examine the ways in which works of art express and communicate ideas to others.
As an art concentrator, students are part of an environment that offers a world of ideas to challenge them intellectually and inform their work. Students benefit from an exciting, rigorous, interdisciplinary art-making department that includes an active visiting artist series, multiple full faculty critiques and multidisciplinary studio environment. Hamilton's art program is concerned with the creation of visual incidents, and the dialogue surrounding the communication and placement of a visual object or experience in both a contemporary and historical context.
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
Each year senior art concentrators visit New York City to meet with accomplished artists in their working studios. In 2008-2009, these artists included: Kurt Kauper, Polly Apfelbaum, Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, Lane Twitchell, Deborah Kass, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Cronin, An-My Le and Nina Katchadourian.
Creative experience is a part of life, not just for artists but for everyone. Art courses allow you to explore complex structures and to experience how the mind synthesizes so many elements — intuition, imagination, learning, culture, emotion and finely honed skills — in order to create such structures.
Hamilton's art program offers courses in an unusually wide range of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Each medium is taught at both the introductory and the intermediate or workshop level. Classes are small, and students and instructors interact on a personal and individual level.
Faculty members are experienced, committed teachers as well as accomplished artists of national and international stature. Their work has been exhibited at such places as the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Musee de Design in Lausanne, France; the Exposition de Escultura in Mexico City; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Arts in Sapporo, Japan; and the Berlin, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles and San Francisco International film festivals.
Art study at Hamilton can be training for countless careers and professions. Art majors have gone on after graduation to become not only working artists and sculptors, but attorneys, architects, designers, filmmakers, educators at levels from elementary school to college — one even went on to become an All-Star NHL goalie!
