Fine Arts: Art, Art History, Music, Theater
Rutgers–Camden offers four-year degree programs in art, music, and theater through the Department of Fine Arts. This interdisciplinary department fosters a cooperative atmosphere for faculty and students, who collaborate on projects and productions throughout the year. Students benefit from numerous opportunities to perform and exhibit their work, as well as from professional exhibits, performances, lectures, and other events offered by the fine arts program.
Art: The bachelor of arts degree in art offers students a variety of concentrations, including art history, electronic arts (graphic design and computer animation), and studio arts (painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture). Students can also design their own major to prepare for careers in art therapy, medical illustration, advertising, or other fields.
Music: Students receive a comprehensive education in theory, history, and performance for an essential understanding of music as an artistic and intellectual achievement. The program encourages students to develop performing skills through private study and by participating in performance ensembles.
Theater: Emphasizing the creative process and new play development, the theater program develops the skills, craft, and imagination of students and provides a strong understanding of theater history within a liberal arts context.
Learn more about the Department of Fine Arts at Rutgers–Camden.
Highlights
- Fine arts students excel in graduate study and professional endeavors. A group of animation graduates recently created Sesame Street’s first 3D computer-animated segments for its 40th anniversary.
- A student wrote and produced a play based on personal experience with the foster care system. Read more here.
- Students train with some of the very best professionals, faculty who are nationally and internationally known in their fields.
- Dr. Julianne Baird, an international performing artist specializing in early music, is one of the most recorded women in all of music, with more than 140 CDs.
- Named "an important figure in the '85 art movement and digital art in China," Prof. LiQin Tan teaches digital animation courses. His award-winning artwork has been recognized worldwide wuth large solo exhibitions at major art venues in China and the United States. Prof. Tan recently served as a core board member of the SIGGRAPH Digital Art Committee.
- Dr. Mark Zaki is an internationally known electro-acoustic composer, a Baroque violinist, and a film scorer.
- Professor Paul Bernstein, head of the theater program, has had more than 30 of his original plays produced in New York and eight European countries.
- Dr. Martin Rosenberg, professor of art history, organized a major exhition of contemporary art by women that is touring the United States through 2013.
- Dr. Kenneth Elliott has directed play and musicals Off-Broadway, in regional theaters, and at the West End in London. He co-authored and directed Devil Boys from Beyond, which won "Outstanding Play" during the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival and received a 2011 "Best Play" nomination from the Off-Broadway Alliance.
- A sculptor and national figure in the field of art and science collaboration, Prof. Elizabeth Demaray was interviewed for the Story Collider Project.
- The department houses cutting-edge technology for the arts, with six fully equipped computer labs for electronic art, including graphic design, computer animation, and video and film, as well as electronic music studios.
Programs
- Majors (BA): art, music, theater; various concentrations
- Minor: museum studies
- Teacher preparation
