What You’ll Learn 

As a student in the associate degree in Fine Arts program, you’ll gain a foundation in the artistic disciplines of drawing, sculpture, and media arts, and then choose from a wide variety of elective studio arts courses. Supportive faculty and artist mentors will help you to grow your confidence and studio skills and will open you to professional opportunities in the field.  

Outside the Classroom, In the Community 

Art is meant to be shared! You’ll find many opportunities to network with the larger art community and display your work.   

• Showcase your work at regional galleries such as The Castleton University Bank Gallery, the Christine Price Gallery and the Calvin Coolidge Library Gallery on the Castleton campus and the Visual Arts Center on the Johnson Campus.  
• Visit major cities to soak up arts and culture. You might travel to Boston or New York City for lessons in art history with your senior seminar.  
• Expand your community through the Student Art Club, which sponsors visiting artists, film series, studio visits, collaborative projects, and trips.  
• Engage with world-class art within easy reach at venues such as the Hood Museum, Williams College Museum, Clark Museum, Mass MOCA, Middlebury College Museum, and Fleming Museum, to name a few.  

Special Facilities 

You’ll find professional art facilities at each of our three campuses that host our Fine Arts program. 

• Castleton: Explore a variety of artistic mediums with major studio workspaces in the Fine Arts Center dedicated to printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramics, drawing, and photography. The Wooldridge House provides a unique venue for woodworking, welding, carving, and outdoor sculpture installations. It also houses dedicated studio space for art majors to work on independent projects.   
• Johnson campus: Enjoy a hub of artistic endeavor in the Visual Arts Center. The large facility houses multiple studios for painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking, and photography. You’ll also find a computer lab for digital art, a quiet room for focused study, a dedicated community art room, and two public art galleries.