Creative Arts Studio Hours
Rolan Sacco
Join us for Second Fridays in 2024! Second Friday is a great way to spend time with family and friends making art! Registration opens at 9 a.m. on Mondays the week of every second Friday of the month!
Affordable access to 17 professionally equipped studios designed for a variety of visual art media, including: clay, creative writing, digital media, drawing + painting, fiber, flameworking, glass, letterpress, metals, darkroom photography, printmaking and wood.
Sip wine and paint! Join a Van Gogh Vino, step by step painting class, and unleash your creativity while experiencing the best wine & paint studio in Arizona! Plan a fun date night or art party for Girls Night Out, Birthday Celebration or Corporate Team Builder. Receive monthly deals for BYOB art classes. Bring wine, we pour the paint and get your creative energy flowing, truly the best art therapy!
We provide the highest quality of child care and creative arts programming for children. The studio is a creative and inspirational space that fosters cognitive, social, and emotional development through a variety of group and independent projects and activities.
Programs are instructed by professional teaching artists focused in pottery, bookmaking, printmaking, painting, drawing, jewelry, and more. Studio memberships are available to qualified students wishing to continue their artistic journey by working in our studios.
Pullen Arts Center offers studio-based classes in bookmaking, drawing, pottery, jewelry, painting, and printmaking. New programs and classes are created regularly and led by professional teaching artists.
The Artist Studio Summer Camp is an art-based day camp that provides pre-teens and teens (ages 11-16) with the opportunity for skill-building and creative exploration within a professional art studio setting. Camp workshops are designed and taught by professional teaching artists. Artist Studio Summer Camp runs from July 8 - August 2 as four one-week sessions with different studio themes. Registration opens on Wednesday, February 21 at 6:30 a.m.
Raleigh residents and non-residents can take part in our studio programs by taking classes or by purchasing a studio membership that will allow them to work independently when classes are not in session.
Participants are eligible to purchase a studio membership after they have completed a qualifying beginning-level class. Before purchasing a new membership, all pre-construction studio members must take a studio orientation or a beginning-level class in the new studios. If it has been over five years since you have held membership or taken a qualifying class, you must retake a qualifying class to be eligible.
Pullen Arts Center's galleries serve as a premier venue to showcase the broadest spectrum of visual arts by artists at various levels throughout the center. We provide artists with exhibition opportunities and space to engage with the work of other artists and the community.
Located at our first floor entrance, the chalk mural wall provides invited artists with a blank canvas to create a new artworks on the wall every two to three months. Pullen Arts Center's newest chalk wall mural is by Laura Casas.
Students pursuing an Art Minor in Studio Art explore and develop concepts, techniques, materials, methods, and critical aesthetic thinking as applied to any of the traditional fine arts disciplines including Ceramics, Jewelry Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and/or Sculpture. The minor is designed to allow students to choose a single focused medium (discipline-specific focus) or explore a varied range of media (media-survey focus). The discipline-specific focus encourages a depth of exploration; a deeper development of skill, processes, and techniques; and a deeper understanding of the conceptual, cultural, and historical considerations relevant to a particular media. The media-survey focus allows the student to explore a broader range of traditional fine arts media, while still encouraging some depth within one particular artistic medium.
At least 18 semester credit hours of course work is required of the minor in the Studio Art courses, with at least six (6) semester credit hours at the 300 level or higher. Students with a discipline-specific focus should meet with an advisor in the discipline after completing nine (9) hours of the minor to plan course work at the 300 level or higher.
Within the Visual Arts program you can pursue a B.A. degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Art Teacher Certification for K-12, Art History, or a B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) degree in Studio Art. Students in the BFA select a concentration from Photography, Studio Art (painting, printmaking, sculpture) or Visual Communications (graphic design or Illustration).
With nationally recognized faculty members and dedicated studios for digital media, drawing, painting, print-making, photography, and sculpture, the Visual Arts program at Stockton is an excellent place to develop your skills as an artist while receiving an excellent liberal arts education.
The Visual Arts program prepares students for careers as artists, graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, and fabricators, as well as careers in education, business, galleries and museums, and not-for-profit organizations.
The B.A. in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts or Art History, or Visual Arts K-12 Teacher Education, or the BFA in Studio Art, is also the first step for students interested in graduate study in art or art history. Visual Arts students are constantly pushed to develop their critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills, which are consistently listed among the skills Fortune 500 companies desire most.
The successes of our alumni are the best evidence of the quality of our program! Graduates of the Stockton Visual Arts program have attended top-ranked graduate programs and gone on to successful careers as photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, and in museums and galleries around the county.
The Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) is offered through the Visual Arts Program. While completing the Core Curriculum, students select a BA concentration in Art History, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts (VIBA), or Visual Arts K-12 Teacher Certification (EDVA).
Interdisciplinary Studio Art (VIBA) is a general studio arts degree in the Visual Arts with flexible course selection. The one-semester capstone (Senior Project), offered each spring, culminates in a project portfolio.
Art History (VHIS) is the academic discipline that studies the history and development of the visual arts, including architecture, painting, photography, prints, sculpture, and other media.
Although the University requires a 2.00 cumulative G.P.A., a 3.0 cumulative GPA is the minimum requirement for NJDOE Certification. A grade of C or better is required in all ARTV courses and a B- or better in all professional education courses. (For a list of all education requirements, including Praxis Core and Praxis II tests, refer to the Teacher Education section of the Bulletin.) The student is responsible for ensuring that all graduation and teacher certification requirements are fully met. Students should consult with their designated preceptors in both ARTV and EDUC on a regular basis.
The Bachelor of Fine Art Degree (BFA) is offered through the Visual Arts Program. While completing the Core Curriculum, students select a BFA concentration in Illustration, Photography, Studio Art, or Visual Communications (graphic design).
The BFA offers depth in a discipline, more intense studio experience, the knowledge and technical skill set fundamental to discipline, and preparation for a career in the visual arts. In the two-semester capstone (Senior Project I and II) courses, faculty work closely with individual students toward the acquisition of advanced problem-solving skills and a personal execution of theory and techniques. The BFA culminates in a Senior Project Thesis Exhibition in the Stockton Art Gallery.
Technical skill is developed through realism, the representation of convincing forms in light and space, via proficient color-mixing and atmospheric perspective. Abstraction investigates the expressive potential of formal means, and the personal process of composing an image. Invention is developed in imaginative, conceptual and self-directed projects.
Printmaking techniques include intaglio, lithography, linocut, monotype, relief printing, and woodcut. Building on knowledge learned in drawing and two-dimensional design, printmaking students learn how to mix inks, work on a press, and about different types of paper, etc.
Sculpture is about the creation of art in three-dimensional space. While sculpture includes traditional techniques like modeling and carving, and traditional materials like clay and stone, it can also involve almost any process, and be almost anything.
The photography concentration emphasizes the use camera based images (analog and digital), light sensitive materials and problem solving skills as an expression of ideas or concepts. Students work with both analog and digital image-making processes as a means of understanding the history and contemporary practice of the medium. The darkroom and the computer labs provide complementary tools for practical and creative problem solving.
The graphic design profession plans and creates the visual means to communicate a particular message to a particular audience and context. Graphic Designers design things people read, whether including words, signs, symbols, and imagery, or any combination of those which interprets, informs or persuades. Graphic Design utilizes typography, illustration, photography, and computer graphics.
The minors in Studio Art and Art History are designed to provide a coherent, formal, and officially recognized course of study in the Visual Arts for the non-art major, the student whose primary field lies elsewhere but who desires, out of personal interest or for career reasons, to pursue a cohesive program in art. Studio Art majors working toward either the BFA or B.A. degree may also elect to minor in Art History. The Visual Arts comprise a field of great relevance and enrichment to a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to communication, history, literature, education, theatrical studies, business studies, and the sciences.
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