Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Fine Arts

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.

Program Highlights

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Fine Arts 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.

* RMCAD offers classes year-round in both on-campus and online delivery formats. At RMCAD, we believe that online learning is an important part of the overall college learning experience. To provide students multiple scheduling options, diverse learning modalities, and experience in the virtual environment, all on-campus students are required to take part in online education.

CLASSROOM TOOLS

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.

FINE ARTS CAREERS

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.

Fine Arts

Student Work

Get to know our Grads

Austyn Lewis

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

For incoming students to RMCAD and the Fashion Department, I give the advice of: say yes. Say yes to every opportunity that you can get. Go for it even if its overwhelming and then also ask questions and be bold. Ask if you can do the crazy things. They will say yes.

Melissa Grando

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

What I love a lot about RMCAD is that they definitely prepared you for a lot of things.

Mikela Greene

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

What I love most is that I got to do it. I was an online student and if it wasn’t for the online program, I don’t think I would have been able to do this.

Amaya Leverette

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

I am influenced by everything… I think that I can relate to anything and anybody. So, I’m always willing to do something different.

Christopher Sweetwood

Class of 2017 / Game Art

RMCAD played an important step in my artistic development and my career. My instructors at RMCAD taught me the skills and software I use on a daily basis in my profession. Alumni Services helped me get into contact with industry professionals helping me get my start in game art.

Irene Skupsky

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

I design for the powerful woman who wears garments with more coverage to inspire her.

Anna Vo

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.

TJ Howell

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.

Haley Long

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.

Candace Feren

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.

Mark Fitzsimmons

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.

Gregory Hayes

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.

Jenny Morgan

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.

Kevin Tydlaska

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.”

Tya Alisa Anthony

Class of 2015 / Photography

My message is to be a humanitarian, to pull our moral imagination back to center.

Daniel Chavez

Class of 2006 / Interior Design

A lot of my technical experience is 100% Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

Rebecca Kaufman

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.

Paul Sullivan

Class of 2003 / Illustration

There is a lot I learned at RMCAD that I use in my career every day.

Lindsay Gruetzmacher

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.

Phil Montaño

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.

Nick Spriggs

Class of 2003 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

I think often of my foundation work at RMCAD. Some of those lessons stay with me today.

Daniyil Onufrishyn

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.

Bill Gillies

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.

Dalton Frizzel

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.

Nina Caballero

Class of 2017 / Art Education

I think what’s really rewarding about teaching is when you finally see a person’s face light up.

Brian Nugent

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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