Vincent Van Gogh once said, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” This is how a fine artist is born. A compilation of experiences derived from being an active participant in the world of art. You paint, sculpt, draw, dream, think…and ultimately become what you are meant to be.
Painting
Video
Photography
Sculpture
Ceramics
Printmaking
Art Education BFA Degree Requirements
At RMCAD, we believe a Fine Arts Degree requires a multi-dimensional education. It begins with a curriculum that is rooted in expansive thinking. You’ll learn professional practices and critical thinking in a way that allows your creativity to thrive. In addition to core classes, you’ll select elective courses to really hone in on your chosen specialty.
The best tools a student can possess in RMCAD’s Fine Arts School are an open mind and a willingness to expose yourself to new and old ideas. Because you’ll be immersed in the vast world of art, you’ll be working and learning in a wide variety of media.
As a RMCAD Fine Arts graduate, the rich curriculum provided throughout the program prepares you for a variety of career opportunities including:
As a Fine Arts student, you’ll explore a variety of medias from painting, sculpture, and photography, to video art and ceramics. Students are taught to focus on the development of artistic theories to gain a fundamental understanding of the broader concepts in the world of art.
You’ll graduate with a mastery of your chosen artistic medium and a firm grasp of professional practices that will enhance your ability to become an active participant in the artistic community.
Fine Arts isn’t just about creativity. It’s about who you become when you are creating. Don’t trust your masterpiece to just any school. Let RMCAD’s Fine Arts Program help you create a masterpiece out of your life. What you learn here is yours forever.
RMCAD’s Fine Arts instructors are cut from a different cloth. The finest cloth. With a variety of backgrounds and life experiences, you will get the kind of one-on-one attention and guidance that turns a Fine Arts student into a fine artist. Your success matters and our faculty will show you just how much!
Student Work
Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
I design for the powerful woman who wears garments with more coverage to inspire her.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
My only advice is: be confident and no matter what mistakes you made just keep going and you will go through it.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
This is my final hoorah so it’s very important that this kind of shows who I am as a designer and what my aesthetic and who I am most importantly.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
What makes me proud to be a RMCAD graduate is the fact that I’ve been challenged so incredibly much here and that it’s actually been applicable outside of RMCAD.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
I’m proud to be a RMCAD graduate because there’s so many amazing staff here. They support you, challenge you and really push you to get where you need to be.
Watch Video >Class of 2018 / Fine Arts
RMCAD gave me the space to experiment. All of the instructors I had let me take not only what I wanted but what I needed from the class I was in.
Watch Video >Class of 2006 / Fine Arts
Ten years later I’ve developed a skill from my professor’s random act of kindness. That little bottle was the start of me dripping paint.
Watch Video >Class of 2003 / Fine Arts, Illustration, Illustrative Design
RMCAD was really influential for me, the teachers I had were extremely impactful and I still keep in touch with them. I think a smaller school like RMCAD can be really beneficial in terms of making connections and keeping those connections.
Watch Video >Class of 2017 / Photography
“RMCAD did the biggest thing for me that every artist needs to experience—it checked my ego…you’re always going to learn, and someone always has something to teach you.”
Watch Video >Class of 2015 / Photography
My message is to be a humanitarian, to pull our moral imagination back to center.
Watch Video >Class of 2006 / Interior Design
A lot of my technical experience is 100% Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.
Watch Video >Class of 2002 / Interior Design
Rocky Mountain was one of the first colleges I looked at – loved the program, loved the area, and I never looked back.
Watch Video >Class of 2003 / Illustration
There is a lot I learned at RMCAD that I use in my career every day.
Watch Video >Class of 2010 / Illustration
RMCAD was great because it gives you a guideline for how to work in teams. How to create artwork for someone else, not just yourself.
Watch Video >Class of 1988 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
You can come back here and know they’re going to have the curriculum and programs you need to succeed.
Watch Video >Class of 2003 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
I think often of my foundation work at RMCAD. Some of those lessons stay with me today.
Watch Video >Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
It [RMCAD] taught me a lot about being a designer and being a better thinker – being more well-rounded.
Watch Video >Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
I wanted to immerse myself in an environment that would teach me, and that was what RMCAD was offering.
Watch Video >Class of 2016 / Game Art
I wanted to be a part of the pre-production that goes into game making-things like the animation and the concept work and all of the actual game building. That’s why I chose RMCAD, because it was really the only school that taught the art side of the game art program.
Class of 2016 / Fine Arts
That moment was when everybody started to understand my work without me having to say anything, that was a moment where I started to feel like I was connecting with something.
Class of 2017 / Art Education
I think what’s really rewarding about teaching is when you finally see a person’s face light up.
Class of 2004 / Animation
What’s really nice about the RMCAD community is that it is a community. We’re all good friends and we keep in contact. A lot of the people that I was here with are working in the industry, so that says how important those relationships are.
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