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. More ...
Academic Program
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Many art majors take advantage of Hamilton's extensive study-abroad programs to spend their junior year in Italy, France, Spain, Great Britain or elsewhere. The adventure of studying great art in its own cultural setting, and of developing one's own skills and vision at the same time, can be a transforming experience for young artists.
In a broader way, the process and discipline of the workshop is a young artist’s day-to-day "research." Intensive workshop experience is a central element of most art courses at Hamilton, as students work closely with instructors and one another to express and expand their creative and critical powers while developing technical skills in a variety of media.
THE SENIOR PROGRAM
All senior art majors embark on a two-semester senior project. The project involves the independent development of a series of creative works based on a central theme or idea. The culmination of the year’s work is the annual spring exhibition of all senior projects in Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery.
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RESOURCES
The College's List Art Center and neighboring facilities house studios and workshops for ceramics, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, metals, painting and photography. Senior art majors, like faculty members, have private studio space.
The department also draws on an impressive range of artistic and cultural resources on campus and off. Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery hosts a vibrant program of exhibitions, lectures, performances and films. The College's permanent collection is available for student research and includes the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, recognized as the world's finest gathering of rare books, maps, manuscripts and art on the Eastern Caribbean. The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, minutes away in Utica, houses one of the most important collections of American art in the country.
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.
Small, Diverse Classes
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.
Teaching-Artists
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.
Endless Possibilities
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!
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.
Small, Diverse Classes
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.
Teaching-Artists
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.
Endless Possibilities
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!
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.
Small, Diverse Classes
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.
Teaching-Artists
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.
Endless Possibilities
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!
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.
Small, Diverse Classes
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.
Teaching-Artists
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.
Endless Possibilities
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!
AFTER HAMILTON
Hamilton graduates who concentrated in Art are pursuing careers in a variety of fields, including:
Technical Director, Pixar Animation Studios
General Partner/Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Director, High Museum of Art
Professor of Art, University of California, Davis
Photographer, United Nations
Associate Art Director, Reader’s Digest
Owner/Founder, Vermont Glass Workshop
Vice President, Credit Suisse
Development Coordinator, Nashville Children's Theatre
