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Art, Design & Graphics

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Enhance your love of printing, web, animation, fashion, textiles, graphics, design, sculpture, painting or other artistic pursuits through this cluster. Your career options will be limited only by your imagination.

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B.F.A. Animation & Digital Media

Do you love to create your own characters or animated films? Combine your passions for art, design, and technology while enjoying collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects.
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B.F.A. Game Design and Development - Art

Do you want to learn what it takes to make video games? Do you want to be game artist? With core skills in art and design, you'll create visual elements like 3D characters and environments, levels, and animations.
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B.F.A. Graphic Design and Interactive Media

Do you like designing posters, packaging, logos and websites? You can be a professional designer of posters, packaging, logos, and websites.
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B.F.A. Industrial Design

Do you like to create products to solve problems? Combine your passion for art and engineering by designing products to improve the lives of consumers.
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B.F.A. Interior Design

Do you want to create safe, artful and life-enhancing interiors? You will learn the principles of space planning, lighting design, construction and sustainability for residential and commercial spaces.
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B.F.A. Studio Art

Are you ready for your art to change the world? Do you want to be a successful studio artist? Apply your knowledge, techniques, and methods while pursuing a concentration in one of six studio art areas.
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B.S. Arts Administration and Entrepreneurship

Do you want to engage with artists on current issues and build artistic communities? Through experiential learning the program provides you with a broad foundation across diverse fields in arts and design.
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B.S. Graphic Communications

Are you interested in design, visual communications, graphic arts, digital software or printing?  You will learn the technical and management skills needed to design, develop, produce and distribute omni-channel marketing campaigns.
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B.S. Video Production

Are you interested in creating and editing video and media in a team environment? You can have the advanced technical knowledge and skills to create and edit your video and media products. Our team environment will teach you how.
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2020–2021 Art, Design & Graphics Career Outcomes

Hands-on curriculum, co-op/internship experiences, and industry partnerships lead to successful outcomes.

 

  TOTAL DEGREES % EMPLOYED OR CONTINUING EDUCATION AVERAGE SALARY
BFA Animation & Digital Media 19 82% NA
BFA Game Design & Development  31 83% $28K
BFA Graphic Design & Interactive Media 37 96% $38K
BFA Industrial Design 31 100% $51K
BFA Interior Design 27 100% $48K
BFA Studio Art 17 100% NA
Graphic Communications 14 100% $38K
 

Partial List of Employers

    

Typical Job Titles
  • 3M
  • Allison+Partners
  • Arandell Corporation
  • Ashley Furniture Industries
  • Bernard Group, The
  • BVK Advertising
  • Curate Design Group
  • Delve
  • Fox Cities Magazine
  • Great Northern Corporation
  • Kalahari Resort & Convention Center
  • Last Gameboard, The
  • Mason Companies
  • Mastercraft Boats
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Milwaukee Tool
  • Mittera Group
  • Post House, The
  • Realityworks
  • Realtime VFX
  • Reindl Printing, Inc.
  • StudioMLM
  • Target 
  • Uline
  • Worrell
  • 3D Artist
  • Account Coordinator
  • Associate Graphic Designer
  • Associate Industrial Designer
  • Associate Product Designer
  • Associate VFX Artist
  • Design Engineer
  • Designer
  • Digital Designer

Art, Design and Graphics

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The natural environment of west-central Wisconsin helped inspire an award-winning piece of 3D art created by a UW-Stout professor.
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‘To Freedom’ will celebrate the art and music of Estonia, Poland and Ukraine

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