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Fine Arts Degree

Visual practice with professional focus and an interdisciplinary attitude.

Fine Arts Concentrations & Programs

2-D Practices
Painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, photography, fabric . . .

3-D Practices
Clay, wood, steel, plaster, papier-mâché, glass, balloons, found objects . . .
Artist Sam Shear BFA 2013, image of figures in a bottle

Digital Arts
Video practices, web design, computer animation, digital imaging . . .

Interdisciplinary Art
New ways of thinking about how art can happen and what it can do.
balloon sculpture by student artis Morraine Bauer at Sierra Nevada University

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Finish your degree by preparing and mounting your solo exhibition.

MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts
A master's degree program for creative art makers driven by critical thinking and built on community

A Unique Fine Arts Degree

Get your fine arts degree in a close-knit community of students and faculty making art with passion and intention. Experiment with established methods and new technologies, practical techniques and creative flexibility.

The Holman Arts & Media Center’s newly renovated and equipped open studios are a light-filled place to try anything and everything. Explore the freedom of visual practice with an interdisciplinary attitude in the Sierra Nevada University fine arts degree program.

  • an SNU art student
  • SNU photography students in the Black Rock Desert seen through a huge concrete culvert
    student photographers in the Black Rock desert
  • Students gather around in Prim Library as the Bachelor of Fine Arts students present their art for MAPR.
    students, faculty, and friends crowd the room for MAPR
  • Weenie Wednesdays at the Fine Arts department
  • large painting of a womans face in the 2017 undergraduate student art show at Sierra Nevada University
    the 2017 student group show
  • A painting class in the Holman Arts and Media Center
    painting class in the Holman Arts and Media Center
  • a screen with multiple images from the SNU 2020 online group student show
    the 2020 student group show was entirely online
  • The Holman Arts and Media Center at Sierra Nevada University
  • The Mac Lab computers have the latest Adobe Creative Suite software.
    the Mac Lab computers have the latest Adobe Creative Suite software
  • SNU professor Rick Parsons with his sculpture class
    professor Rick Parsons with his sculpture class
  • The Holman Arts & Media Center at dusk.
    HAMC at dusk
  • installation photo of the 2012 student art group show at Sierra Nevada University
    the 2012 student group show
  • installing the MAPR student exhibit 2014
    installing MAPR

Art Fed by Community

We think creative interplay is hugely important. Whether you concentrate in Two-Dimensional or Three-Dimensional Practices, Digital Arts, or Interdisciplinary Art, you’ll get your fine arts degree among students in every discipline. Add a minor in Music to expand your portfolio even farther.

You’ll get feedback from peers and faculty mentors who are interested in your work and ideas. You’ll exhibit your work in the Midway Art Portfolio Review and annual group Student Show. And BFA candidates all finish with a solo show in one of our main galleries.

It doesn’t all happen in the studio.

Meet the exciting visiting artists whose work is exhibited in SNU’s four gallery spaces.

Learn about the Italian Renaissance in Italy, Japanese artistic traditions in Japan, or current trends in ceramics at conferences in the US. Contrast the amazing beauty and equally amazing outdoor adventures of Lake Tahoe with the dramatic expanse of the high desert.

Fine Arts Student Sidney Pinkerton works on painting project

Meet Our FA Students

Items from an exhibition by artist Lawrence LaBianca in the Tahoe Gallery at Sierra Nevada University

Exhibitions

view of the Lake Tahoe shoreline nearing dusk photographer Jerry Dodrill

Summer Art Workshops

plant materials gathered for the environmental art piece Points of Flux

Visual Archive

2 Degrees exhibition

the Perspectives On Design Award

The Aubrey Creative Spirit Scholarship supports promising fine arts majors at Sierra Nevada University.

Aubrey Scholarship

Sculpture class Rick Parsons.

Fine Arts Faculty

Our Students Say It Best

SNU BFA in Fine Arts student Cara Close

Cara Close

Major: Fine Arts – Two-Dimensional Practices
Class of 2018
I came back to SNC after many years out of school raising my girls and experiencing life to continue my journey as a fine artist. It has been a wonderful experience to be back in the art department community surrounded by young artists. Although I am more busy than ever, I am also more focused and getting the most from my classes.Read More

SNU fine arts student Adrian Pinal-Gonzalez, portrait

Adrian Pinal-Gonzalez

Major: Fine Arts - Three-Dimensional Practices, Minor in Digital Arts
Class of 2020
I love to create, and to solve the problems that come along with the process of a project. My solution to many problems I encounter is to sketch out what I need to make and create a paper model. Model making greatly helps save the real material.Read More

Anza Jarschke, New Genre, Psychology major gives two thumbs up

Anza Jarschke

Major: Fine Arts – New Genres, Psychology
Class of 2013
After finishing my masters in Social Justice and Community Organizing from Prescott College, I returned to SNC Tahoe to work as the Gallery Director. It's an exciting step in life to be able to come back to a place that provided me with so much at a formative time. Read More

BFA & Midway Art Portfolio Review

Art Beyond College

We don’t think that being an artist should require starving in a garret. Our fine arts degree program addresses the challenges you will face as a working artist with a structure that mirrors graduate programs.

Develop your vision into an expressive body of work. Explore professional opportunities that fit your creative and personal goals. Graduate from Sierra Nevada University prepared for a satisfying and sustainable future. Ask our alumni!

Information about the Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree and the Midway Art Portfolio Review.

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Program
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Sheri Leigh O'Connor
Chair, Department of Fine Arts
sleigh@sierranevada.edu
775.881.7588

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