Develop your creativity in studios and labs with the support of faculty, staff, and other students. As you learn the histories and theories of visual and media arts, you’ll develop the tools to study what you see in the world in new and powerful ways.
Whether you want to get hands-on with practices like ceramics or dive into a digital craft like video editing, you’ll learn what it takes to launch projects and start a career. You’ll also use your studies of art and media to gain a better understanding of culture and politics, work closely with your community, and become a force for good in the world.
Interdisciplinary Arts
Interdisciplinary art combines and expands traditional mediums. And we believe that art is interdisciplinary in the Evergreen sense: connected to ideas about the world from many fields. In this Path, you will gain specific skills while deepening your creative, intellectual, and problem-solving abilities.
Build real skills for the future
You will gain the skills needed to start a career that calls on your creativity or your desire for a specific position in the arts and media world.
Skills include:
- Artistic technique
- Collaboration and leadership
- Critical and creative thinking
- Entrepreneurship
- Independent research
- Navigating information
- Networking
- Persuasive speaking
- Problem-solving
- Project management
- Technological expertise
- Visual literacy
- Writing
This Path can prepare you for careers in
- Animation
- Art direction
- Art education
- Art history and curation
- Audio engineering
- Curation
- Entrepreneurship
- Fashion and retail design
- Fine arts and crafts
- Graphic design
- Industrial design
- Interior design
- Journalism
- Marketing and communications
- Multimedia arts
- Non-profit organizations
- Photography
- Radio and television
- Video production
Highlights of this Path
Active art and media community
Dig deep and build lasting connections. With activities like film screenings, seminars, art critiques, writing workshops, technical training, and more, you’ll become part of a community built to support your goals.
The Artist Lecture Series also brings programs from this Path and others together for talks with renowned artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars.
Learn more about the Artist Lecture Series.
Showcase your talent
Whether you’re doing ceramics, creating paintings, making films, or mixing audio, you’ll have opportunities to invest time on your projects and reveal your artistry to the world. Exhibitions, screenings, and other events both on and off campus allow you to show your work, make connections, and find collaborators for your next project.
Many students also get help submitting their work to galleries and film festivals or seeking internships to get a head start on their careers while they earn college credit.
Visual art studios
The art studios at Evergreen are furnished with professional equipment and tools to help you work at an advanced level. You’ll get to utilize a range of studios to learn new techniques and explore your creative process with faculty who will support you every step of the way.
Visual art studios include:
- Ceramics
- Critique and presentation spaces
- Drawing
- Fine metalsmithing
- 2D and 3D multimedia arts
- Letterpress and book arts
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Woodworking
Learn more about the visual arts studios.
Media labs and studios
Programs and courses on this Path use a wide range of media resources on campus. You can explore and combine different media for your projects with direct access to state-of-the-art technology. No matter your level of experience, faculty and staff will be on hand to help you learn and improve your media skills.
Studios and labs include:
Audio
- Audio mix benches
- Mixing room
- Sound effects studio
- Audio lab
- Performance and production studio
- Advanced multitrack studio
- Music technology labs
Animation
- 2D rotoscope lab
- 2D multi-use lab
- 3D animation studio
Video and film
- Television studio
- Multimedia lab
- Video editing suites
- 16mm film editing rooms
Learn more about media labs and studios.
Media Loan
Media Loan offers a huge range of equipment rentals to students across the college. From entry level audio recorders to advanced digital cameras, you can get trained on just about anything you’ll need.
Photoland
For photographers, Photoland is the ultimate learning and production resource for both film and digital photography. With knowledgeable, dedicated staff and incredible photography equipment and studios, this is where you’ll learn to produce high-quality photography.
Indigenous arts campus
Evergreen’s Indigenous arts campus is a one-of-a-kind resource available to students. The campus includes s'gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ: House of Welcome Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, a fiber arts studio, a carving studio, and a 2D design studio.
Learn more about the Indigenous arts campus.
Graduate school opportunities beyond this Path
- Art history
- Art therapy
- Broadcasting
- Business and nonprofit organizations
- Critical theory
- Design
- Documentary and experimental film
- Education
- Filmmaking
- Master of Fine arts
- Marketing and communications
- Media and film theory
- Museum studies
- Painting
| Title | Expertise |
|---|---|
| Thompson, Bruce | ceramics |