Fine Arts

Explore your creative potential.

Degree: Associate in Science
Program Type: Transfer Degree
Pathway: Arts, Media & Culture
Additional Program Option: Hybrid
Credits: 62

A future in art

SUNY Adirondack's Fine Arts degree program includes courses in many media, including drawing, painting, two- and three-dimensional design, graphic arts, photography and art history.

Degree requirements Program sheet

On her way

SUNY Adirondack alumna Jaelyn Cutright is seen in the Student Center

I never saw drawing as a career until [SUNY Adirondack]. Art was just a fun thing I did at night when I listened to music, but now I have a foundation and an idea what I want to do and how I want to impact the world with my art.”

Jaelyn Cutright Artist and SUNY Oswego student 2023

Read Jaelyn's story

SUNY Adirondack Fine Arts student Mackenzie Spencer hangs artwork on a bulletin board in the hallway of Dearlove Hall

Finding her voice

Mackenzie Spencer discovers her artistry at SUNY Adirondack.

Creating a path

Our faculty are professional artists who exhibit in local and national spaces. Visiting artists and faculty from four-year colleges visit your classrooms.

A student works on a 2D design in art class

Illustrating a future

SUNY Adirondack's Fine Arts degree program prepares students for further education. The most popular transfer institutions for this program are: SUNY Plattsburgh | University at Albany | SUNY Empire State | SUNY Potsdam | SUNY Oneonta

Careers in Fine Arts

Learning outcomes

Students will acquire basic drawing skills and design skills as well as an understanding of elements of art and principles of design.
Students will understand the nature of working in a collaborative studio environment and the level of personal responsibility in such an environment.
Students will be prepared to engage in public discourse about issues of image making in all media both traditional and new, including aforementioned elements and principles. Students will be able to tie these concepts to observations about their artwork and the artwork of their peers as well as iconic works of art throughout history.
Students will develop a working knowledge of the history of art.
Students will have a familiarity with and technical understanding of the use of materials involved with the making and preservation of artworks.
Students will be able to focus more specifically and have a more developed awareness of studio practices in one or more of the following areas: drawing, painting, working with the human form, and printmaking, graphic design and photography.

Our professors

John Hampshire

Professor of Fine Arts

Nick Paigo

Professor of Graphic Arts
Media Arts Club advisor; Arts, Media & Culture academic advisor

Rebecca Pelchar

Assistant professor of Art History; Chair of Arts, Media & Culture Division
Curator of the SUNY Adirondack Art Collection and director of the Visual Arts Gallery

Brandon Segal

Instructor of Media Arts

Fine Arts

A future in art

On her way

Finding her voice

Creating a path

Illustrating a future

Careers in Fine Arts

Learning outcomes

Our professors

John Hampshire

Nick Paigo

Rebecca Pelchar

Brandon Segal

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