The four-year
program leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art offers Rutgers students at
the Camden campus a variety of concentrations which include art history, computer
graphics, graphic design, museum studies, painting, printmaking & photography,
sculpture, and teacher certification (in cooperation with the Teacher Preparation
Program). Students may also design their own interdisciplinary majors to prepare
for careers in art therapy, medical illustration, advertising, and other fields.
Housed in the Fine Arts Center at the Camden campus of Rutgers, the Art studios
are among the best-equipped educational facilities in the Greater Delaware Valley.
Full-time studio art faculty members are professional artists who have contributed
their works to major exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Scholars
in classical, Renaissance, and modern art are included among the art history faculty.
Students who concentrate in studio art are exposed to a variety of media, with
particular emphasis on drawing, composition, and color theory. Many areas of specialization
are available once the core curriculum has been completed. After rigorous training,
degree candidates are expected to participate in a Senior Thesis Exhibition prior
to graduation. A sizable percentage of art majors pursue advanced degrees or move
on to professional careers in graphic design, computer graphics, and related art
disciplines. To ensure that Camden art majors obtain a strong liberal arts education,
the curriculum has been designed with course requirements in the natural sciences,
social sciences, and humanities.
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Computer
Graphics and Animation The
fastest-growing section of the Art/Art History Program is the new and exciting
discipline of computer graphics and computer animation. Students learn to prepare
two- and three-dimensional art for graphic design, illustration, video animation,
and desktop publishing in the most comprehensive and advanced courses available
in this region. Three on-campus laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art
networked computers, including PowerMacs and Silicon Graphics workstations. Many
of our computer graphics students complete internships with multimedia agencies
and broadcasting companies during their four year curriculum.
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Graphic
Design The graphic design program emphasizes the development
of original, conceptual ideas as they relate to graphic images including logos/trademarks,
advertising, editorial page illustrations, magazine layouts, and packaging. Students
learn how to make finished comprehensives for their portfolios and client presentations.
Graphic design students have received numerous awards including recent scholarships
awarded by the Art Directors Club of N.J. Because professionalism is emphasized,
the department offers a comprehensive internship program with area design studios.
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Sculpture
After completing
a preliminary three-dimensional design course, in which spatial relationships
are explored in paper, wood, and clay, students begin a series of classes emphasizing
both traditional and contemporary approaches to sculpture. Special attention to
anatomical figure study is given in life sculpture and drawing courses. Professional
moldmaking and casting methods are taught. Specialized courses in bronze casting
and other advanced techniques have been offered in conjunction with studios such
as the Johnson Atelier in Mercerville, NJ, and the Laran Bronze Foundry in Chester,
PA.
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Painting
The Painting
major is designed to maximize the creative potential of individual students by
offering new challenges in many expressive techniques, including oils, acrylics,
watercolor, gouache, casein, and egg tempera. Studies are done from still life,
figure, landscape, and a variety of experimental approaches are explored. In-residence
landscape painting courses are regularly conducted in a variety of locations,
including the New Jersey shore, mountain areas in the eastern United States and
in Europe.
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Printmaking
and Photography The fine arts and graphic design programs
may be enriched with a variety of courses in printmaking and photography, taught
in well-equipped color and black and white photography, etching, lithography,
and silkscreen studios. By combining these skills with other Art offerings, students
may develop individualized majors, such as painting/printmaking, computer graphics/photography,
or graphic design/printmaking. Go
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Art
History and Museum Studies The Art History Program
offers a major in art history and a minor in museum studies. Art history students
study Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, African, Renaissance,
Baroque, modern, and contemporary art. Museum studies students make use of the
on-campus Stedman Art Gallery as well as major museums and galleries in the
eastern United States. Graduates of the program are fully prepared to pursue
an advanced degree in art history and/or careers in the museum sciences. More
than 80 percent of the students enrolled in this program have traveled and studied
abroad under the auspices of the International Studies Program at Rutgers-Camden.
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International
Studies This program makes short-term travel abroad available
to students throughout Rutgers. Since its inauguration in 1985, with three consecutive
grants from the N.J. Department of Higher Education, the program has helped thousands
of Rutgers students, as well as students from other colleges, study in 24 countries,
including Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy,
Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Namibia, South Africa, Israel, Russia, and Spain. Trips
to these countries are offered in conjunction with courses offered by a wide range
of academic departments.
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Cooperative
Education Internships This highly acclaimed program helps
art students in graphic design, computer graphics, fine arts, art history, and
museum studies gain practical experience while pursuing their baccalaureate degrees.
Internships, with and without academic credits, are available at major museums,
art galleries, design studios, and computer graphics labs for Rutgers-Camden juniors
and seniors. Not only is first hand experience gained, but permanent positions
with the host firms and institutions also may result.
About
Rutgers Camden Set
in an attractive campus adjacent to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Rutgers-Camden
offers a diverse curriculum designed to provide students with a strong liberal
arts background as well as extensive knowledge in specialized fields. The college
offers major programs in twenty-three undergraduate and several graduate disciplines.
Rutgers-Camden has the advantage of being located in a geographic area that
provides one of the richest heritages for the study of art in the United States.
The major museums in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington DC, as well as the
campus' own Stedman Art Gallery, are frequently used by students for research
and enrichment purposes.
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Admission
to Rutgers Applicants
are evaluated by the Committee on Admissions on the basis of several criteria,
including high school academic record, courses taken, quality of work, trend of
grands, and rank in class. The committee considers the results of the Scholastic
Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, which is required of
all applicants except those who have been out of high school for two or more years
or transfer with 12 or more credits from another college or university.
In
addition, the committee welcomes recommendations from faculty, principals, and
guidance counselors, and is interested in the applicant's personal characteristics,
motivation, maturity, and potential as a contributor to the college community.
Because admission to the college is based on academic criteria, the the Fine Arts
Department does not conduct formal portfolio reviews. However, applicants are
urged to call the department chair to arrange an interview to discuss academic
and career planning.
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Transfer
Students The
Fine Arts Department welcomes transfer students who have taken courses in art
at other colleges. Most courses are accepted as either elective or equivalent
credit; transfer students from non-degree granting schools of art may use their
previous studio training to fulfill a portion of the are curriculum.
Financial
Aid Financial
aid is available to those students who qualify for admission and demonstrate financial
need. Assistance is provided through appropriate combinations of scholarships,
grants-in-aid, loans, and work opportunities. Selection of the types of funds
used to meet the student's need is the responsibility of the financial aid office.
Several scholarships opportunities are available to art students, including the
Mary Jane Kelleher Wille Memorial Prize and the Stedman Art Gallery Purchase Award.
In addition, ten to fifteen grants are awarded each year to enable students to
participate in the various study abroad programs.
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Art/Art History
Faculty
Margery
Amdur, Associate Professor of Art, M.F.A. University of Wisconsin
Elizabeth
Demaray, Assistant Professor, M.F.A. University of California at
Berkeley
Allan
Espiritu, Assistant Professor of Art, M.F.A.
Yale
Ken
Hohing, Assitant Instructor, B.A., Rutgers-Camden; Postgraduate
Certificate, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University; Postgraduate Certificate, Gesamthochschule
Kassel.
Martin
Rosenberg, Ph.D., Professor of Art History and
Chair, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
LiQin
Tan, Associate
Professor of Art, (M.A. Concordia, Post-grad. Cert. Sheridan) teaches computer
/ classical / character animation, animation production and multimedia. His
artworks have been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. Many of
his articles in art criticism and art education have been published in journals,
magazines, and books. He has received numerous awards & grants internationally,
which include the First Place from the Butler Institute of American Art, a Best
of Show from International Digital Media & Arts Association, a Gold Medal
from Da Vinci Art Alliance, an Award of Excellence from Period Gallery, an Award
of Excellence from Gallery International, an Award of Achievement in art criticism
from The Trend of Art Thought magazine, a Minority Junior Faculty Grant from
Lindback Foundation, a Bildner Diversity Grant from Bildner Family Foundation,
a John W. O'Brien Fellowship, Rutgers Research Council Grants and Rutgers Dialogue
Grants. He also worked as an executive editor and director in the art industries.
Roberta
K. Tarbell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, (BS Cornell;
MS, PhD, Delaware) teaches Renaissance, Baroque, and 19th/20th Century art and
architecture. Her critical reviews and catalogues have been published by many
museums and institutions. Dr. Tarbell has received a fellowship at the Smithsonian
and is currently finishing a major book on 20th century sculpture, a subject
on which she is a renowned expert. Dr. Tarbell has led numerous International
Studies trips to Spain, France, and Italy.
Part-Time Lecturers
Robert Emmons,
Video and Film
Adam Flanagan ,
Electronic Arts
Jeff Filbert, Studio
Art
Bruce Garrity,
Studio Art
Susan Jones,
Art History
Professor Emeriti
John
J. Giannotti, Professor Emeritus, B.F.A. cum laude, the State University
of New York at Buffalo; M.F.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He teaches
Three Dimensional Design, Sculpture, and Artist in Society seminars. Professor
Giannotti has exhibited his paintings and sculpture in many individual and group
exhibitions around the world, most recently in Italy and at St. Martins in the
Fields Gallery in London. His monumental bronze sculptures of the poet Walt
Whitman and scientist Madam Currie are permanently installed at public sculpture
gardens in Tokyo, Japan and West Palm Beach, Florida. In 1988, he received the
Warren I. Sussman Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Faculty
Award from the Camden Alumni Association. Professor Giannotti has been appointed
as Resident Director of the Rutgers Junior Year Abroad Program in Florence,
Italy for 1996-1997. He served in a similar capacity there in 1990-91.
William
M. Hoffman, Jr., Professor Emeritus, B.F.A., University of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts; M.F.A., Temple University, Tyler School of Art), teaches Painting,
Drawing, Foundation courses, and in-residence Landscape Painting classes. His
paintings and drawings, featured at the Peale House in 1983, have been exhibited
in solo and group shows regionally and nationally. In 1994 he exhibited his
paintings and drawings at the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Gallery in London. He
received Visual Arts Fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts in 1980
and 1985.
Olga
Moore, Professor Emerita, M.A. Wisconsin; M.F.A. Art Institute of Chicago,
teaches Graphic Design, Communications Design, and Drawing. Her paintings, drawings,
and photographs have been exhibited in both individual and group shows throughout
the United States. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a
Fulbright Research Fellowship to Morocco in 1986 and a New Jersey State Council
of the Arts Fellowship in 1982.
Visiting
Faculty
In addition
to regular faculty, the Fine Arts Department at Rutgers in Camden also offers
special opportunites for students to learn from visiting artists and guest lecturers.
Adjunct faculty have included: Zenos Frudakis, Eugene Daub, Philip Carroll,
Shelly Thornstensen, Susan Isaacs, Sylvia Lahvis, Deborah Miller, Sid Sachs,
Karin Anhold, Richard Hricko, Elizabeth Bickley, and Judith Taylor. Nationally
prominent artists, including Grace Hartigan, Steven Green, Nancy Dwyer, Sidney
Goodman, Jack Beal, Janet Fish, Laurie Anderson, Jim Nutt, William Wegman, Roy
DeForest, Louise Bourgeois, and Max Kozloff, have presented lectures and demonstrations
to students in the department.
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For further information:
email: Dr. Julianne Baird, Acting Chair
Department of Fine Arts
Rutgers, the State University
314 Linden St.
Camden, New Jersey 08102-1403
(856) 225-6251
FAX: (856) 225-6330
or
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Rutgers, the State University
Camden, New Jersey 08102
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