The Bachelor of Fine Arts
Clemson is a place where skills can be refined and minds enriched. Our students are encouraged to explore, achieve and create. The BFA program is small enough to allow the close interaction and free exchange of ideas that are so vital to art. With no more than 15 students enrolled in a studio course, individual instruction is a high priority. Students have direct contact with faculty work in the studio, which allows them to share both technical and conceptual processes. 
Our BFA program places strong emphasis on skill development in relationship to creativity. Students gain hands-on experience in facilities for bronze casting, metal fabrication, gas and electric firing, lithography, etching, basic paper-making, photography and digital imaging. An excellent woodworking facility is available to all students in AAH, and the ceramic program has a large wood-fired Anagama Kiln, the only kiln of its kind in the South Carolina.
We educate artists through a curriculum of academic course work balanced with studio art and art history courses. We encourage students to use their elective classes to expand their curriculum into disciplines that will enrich their total education. The freshman and sophomore years are a balance between general University studies and art and design courses.
Students begin to concentrate their studio course work in a specific area of the visual arts in the junior year in preparation for their senior studio. The senior studio is the most significant course work in the undergraduate curriculum, as it reflects a time in which concepts and skills are focused and developed to produce a cohesive body of artwork and a portfolio for graduate study or professional applications.
The student undergraduate experience is enhanced by informal professional activities with faculty; field trips to art centers in Charlotte, Columbia, Atlanta, New York City and Washington, D.C.; interaction with visiting artists; and opportunities for local and regional exhibitions.
BFA Portfolio Requirements
BFA Undergraduate Admissions
BFA Curriculum
For more information, see the Undergraduate Announcements catalog.