Visual Arts, A.S.
Create Your Future in Visual Arts
Every industry needs an artistic eye like yours. From fashion and interior design to animation and photography, fuel your creative fire at DCC.
Credits in core courses and electives you choose
Years of full-time study for most students (earning college credits in high school can save time)
Preparation for a variety of 4-year colleges and universities
A Network of Supportive Peers and Professors
"The Visual Arts Program at DCC has been invaluable to my growth as an artist. It has expanded my horizons, allowing me to deepen my creativity, broaden my skills and build a network of supportive peers and professors."
Katelyn Oles
Visual Arts Student
What You'll Study as a Visual Arts Student
At DCC, you'll build your professional portfolio, find your creative community, and gain the studio experience you’ll need to transfer to a bachelor's program and begin your career in the arts.
Visual arts students at DCC usually go on to complete Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Fine Arts programs. You'll build a strong foundation across multiple art studio disciplines while also having the opportunity to focus on drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, graphic design, or mixed media.
Our visual arts alumni have pursued careers in fashion design, interior design, product design, museum and gallery work, art restoration, arts administration, art therapy, display design, animation, graphic design, photography and studio art.
VIEW FULL CURRICULUMSample Courses
ART 111: Three-Dimensional Design
Learn the basic design issues that underlie three-dimensional works of art.
ART 120: Color Theory & Painting
The foundations of color relationships, interactions and use in visual compositions.
ART 262: Visual Arts Portfolio Course
Build or improve your portfolio and learn skills needed to transfer or apply for jobs.
Where Do Visual Arts Grads Go?
Transform your associate degree into a bachelor’s degree. DCC grads have successfully gone on to four-year programs at:
- SUNY Albany
Bachelor of Science - SUNY Fredonia
Bachelor of Architecture - SUNY New Paltz
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts - SUNY Oneonta
- SUNY Oswego
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts - SUNY Potsdam
- SUNY Purchase
- Pratt Institute
- School of Visual Arts
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Art Center College of Design
- FIT
- Montserrat College of Art
- New York University
Ongoing Internships:
- Dia: Beacon
- DCC Office of Marketing & Communications
- DCC Academy of Music
- Hudson River Housing
- Arts Mid-Hudson
- Garrison Art Center
- Main Printing
Job Placements:
- Dia: Beacon
- Dutchess Community College
- Hudson River Housing
Service Learning Partnerships:
- Dutchess County SPCA
- The Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse
- Resilient Youth Collaborative
- DCC Masquer's Guild
- Mill Street Loft
Ceramic Pit Firing: ART 275
Students in Jessica Murphy’s ART 275 Ceramics: Wheel Throwing got the opportunity to try a technique first pioneered over 30,000 years ago. The class fired their pottery in a pit fire and realized the best classrooms don’t have to have four walls.
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