Undergraduate Fine Arts

Undergraduate Fine Arts

• Donna Moran, Chair of Fine Arts 
  dmoran@pratt.edu | 718.636.3602
• Scott Malbaurn, Acting Assistant Chair of Fine Arts 
  smalbaur@pratt.edu | 718.636.3581
• Main Office
  718.636.3634

Pratt offers an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts with areas of emphasis in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Ceramics, and Jewelry.

Pratt students learn through studio work, group discussion, lectures, seminars, individual consultations, and frequent visits to museums, galleries, and artists’ studios.   They work closely with a dedicated Fine Arts faculty, drawn from artists representing major directions in the contemporary art world, many exhibiting in major galleries and museums.

Fine Arts majors begin their career at Pratt studying in the Foundation department of the School of Art & Design.  After the successful completion of this first year, students enter the Fine Arts department as sophomores, enrolling in a common year-long curriculum. The aim of this broad introduction to the Fine Arts is twofold:  setting a base for cross-disciplinary mobility in further study, while launching each student in their chosen area of concentration. In the junior year majors deepen their knowledge in their area of emphasis through a combination of studio, seminar, technical and liberal arts requirements, while using elective courses to cross disciplines both within and beyond the Fine Arts Department.

Elective courses might include traditional media such as charcoal drawing, bronze casting, etching and ceramics, as well as topics in new media, design disciplines and contemporary conceptual genres. Students are encouraged to plan unique course combinations by pairing requirements with electives that amplify their emerging studio practice. The last two years of study at Pratt lead to focused aesthetic directions, developing those skills required to realize them professionally . All Fine Arts majors produce a thesis project in their final year, culminating in a public exhibition of their work on the Pratt campus.