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University description (as per official university website)
In 1924, Mills College of Art and Advertising was established in St. Paul. Lowell Bobleter acquired Mills College in 1948 and renamed it the "School of the Associated Arts." Lowell Bobleter was a prominent St. Paul artist and educator and had directed the School of Fine Arts at Hamline University. Bobleter had a vision of developing an art school that would offer students a more comprehensive and progressive program based on the Bauhaus model: an integrated program including both fine and applied arts, with general courses in humanities, natural sciences and aesthetics.
The College of Visual Arts is a private, accredited, four-year college of art and design offering Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in graphic design, illustration, photography, drawing/painting, sculpture, and interdisciplinary art & design studies with concentrations in fashion design at Parsons Paris, museum gallery studies, teaching artist, advertising, printmaking, interdisciplinary fine arts, or visual communications. The college is located in the thriving urban residential areas of historic Summit Hill and Cathedral Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The College of Visual Arts offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design, illustration, photography, drawing/painting, sculpture and interdisciplinary art & design studies (IADS) including fashion design at Parsons Paris, museum gallery studies, teaching artist, advertising, printmaking, interdisciplinary fine arts, or visual communications.
All students participate in a clearly sequenced yearlong foundation program designed to ground them in the skills, vocabulary, concepts and methods that will be essential to all future work. The first year lays the foundation for a four-year experience, culminating in the senior capstone work. Studio and liberal arts course content is strongly correlated, reinforcing learning across the curriculum.
In the sophomore year, students begin to focus on the core program in their major field. Each program offers a carefully designed sequence of courses to build the knowledge and skills required for increasingly complex and sophisticated study within their program. |
