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Department office: 5306 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5181

Full-time Faculty

Distinguished Professor(s): Cronin
Professor(s): Ball, Carlile, Hadler, Kiel, Kousser, McCoy, Rand
Associate Professor(s): Adams, Otitigbe, Richards
Assistant Professor(s): Schwab
Lecturer(s): Simon

The Art Department, located in one of the world's most important art centers, draws on New York's vast community of notable artists and art historians for its faculty and for the many visiting artists and lecturers who supplement the curriculum. Students have easy access to the city's great museums and countless galleries. The department offers an M.F.A. in studio art, an M.A. in art history, an Advanced Certificate in museum education, and a concentration for education majors. An internationally recognized studio faculty, many represented in important museums and by commercial galleries in the U.S. and abroad, teach drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, digital art, and combined media. A faculty of distinguished scholars offers art history courses ranging from ancient to modern, both western and non-western. The studio program, with a fine-arts rather than a commercial focus, seeks a balance between traditional and new in its mix of faculty, students, and course content. A large percentage of its graduates are successful artists, many represented by commercial galleries. Others have become commercial artists, illustrators, graphic designers, architects, cartoonists, art directors, art restorers, and fashion designers. A number have won such major honors as Guggenheims, Fulbrights, Pollock-Krasners, and the Prix de Rome. Art history graduates have become museum curators, gallery directors, art critics, art writers, art editors, and archivists, or work for public or private art-related organizations. Graduates of both programs teach in leading art schools and universities.

CUNY Ph.D.

The City University of New York offers a doctoral program in art history. General information about CUNY Ph.D. programs is in the chapter Support for Academic Success in Graduate School of the Graduate Bulletin. The Art Department offers courses at Brooklyn College in art history that are creditable toward the CUNY doctoral degree with permission of the executive officer of the doctoral program.

For information about the courses, students should consult the art history adviser in the Art Department and the executive officer of the doctoral program.

Courses

Unless a prerequisite is specific, students may apply graduate or undergraduate courses toward fulfillment of that prerequisite.

The following inactive course(s) will only be offered if there is sufficient demand:

  • ARTD. 6210T Introduction to Drawing and Color

  • ARTD. 7030G Early Florentine and Sienese Painting

  • ARTD. 7076G Modern Architecture to World War I

  • ARTD. 7078G Modern Architecture since 1914

  • ARTD. 7250T Projects in Creative Art for the Classroom

  • ARTD. 7410T Painting

  • ARTD. 7510T Sculpture

  • ARTD. 7710T Photography