Student Work Galleries
Students are able to fully explore and enhance their skills because of the studios and learning spaces at the USF School of Art & Art History. You gain hands-on experience with a variety of tools and techniques, while working alongside fellow artists and receiving the guidance of faculty. A place for creativity, collaboration and critique, you will grow as a person and an artist in our studios.
Look through the galleries below to see some of the professional-quality work produced in our studios by our students.
MFA Student Work Gallery
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree at the University of South Florida’s School of Art & Art History is an idea-centered program that encourages broad media exploration, interdisciplinary projects, and and engagement with current theoretical and cultural issues.
Image: Artwork by Mikaela Williams.
Animation and Digital Modeling
Students taking animation and digital modeling classes at the University of South Florida created this selection of student design work. During these courses, students learn the foundations to create both 2D and 3D animations for fine art, film, games, and visualization.
Image: Utopia by Christina Leccese.
Ceramics
From a deep historic foundation, the ceramic medium consistently evolves and returns. We approach clay with broad explorative research ranging from ancient craft histories to contemporary critical dialogs. We are conservatory program, allowing students the freedom to develop singular research to realize their ideas, whether clay is a specific practice or part of a wider material dialog
Image: Ceramic sculpture by Sasha Adorno.
Drawing
Adapting skills-based learning and research methodologies, the University of South Florida drawing program supports art-making as a process of inquiry that is continually sharpened by experience, knowledge and practice. Area faculty work closely with students in your drawing practice and to encourage you to consider art within international, national and regional contexts.
Image: Drawing by Kelsey Giamarino.
Graphic Arts
Students in the Graphic Arts Program pursue a concentration in graphic design or illustration. They investigate new ways of solving complex, multi-layered visual problems. Design courses are based on the studio model of education where students work together, examine outcomes, listen to informal lectures, and engage in passionate discussions. Students supplement their course work with additional projects from both community and university organizations.
Image: Graphic design work by Tessa Wilson.
Painting
Adapting skills-based learning and research methodologies, the University of South Florida drawing program supports art-making as a process of inquiry that is continually sharpened by experience, knowledge and practice. Area faculty work closely with students in your drawing practice and to encourage you to consider art within international, national and regional contexts.
Image: Painting by Jennifer Carmiel Miller.
Photography
The Photography program at the University of South Florida encourages a broad range of experimentation with the expressive potentials of photography, as well as an awareness of contemporary practice and critical thinking on issues surrounding the medium. Students are encouraged to gain a grounding in history and criticism, while also maintaining a strong foundation in traditional photographic skills and techniques.
Image: Photograph by Selina Roman.
Sculpture and Extended Media
Within the past century the tradition of sculpture has vastly expanded to encompass every material, medium and context for the expression of ideas and forms in space and time, from traditional media to light, sound, time and the “real” to the virtual, whether realized in the ivory towers of the art world or in the street.
Image: Performance and sculpture by Jamie Bird.
Video and Digital Arts
The Video curriculum at the University of South Florida offers a unique opportunity for artists to pursue a cutting-edge approach to Video, Sound, and Digital Media. The comprehensive digital arts program at USF offers students the ability to both develop expertise in specific digital tools and allows students the flexibility to combine classes to hone a student’s individual artistic voice.
Image: Stills from Wall Fall by Hillary Jones, 9-channel video.
If you would like to see the works of our students in person, we invite you to visit us at the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus. We feature student artwork throughout our Fine Arts Building (FAH) and host the BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition and the MFA Thesis Exhibition at the on-campus Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery and USF Contemporary Art Museum respectively. Our biggest event of the year is ArtHouse, the annual arts extravaganza celebrating and showcasing the works of our students from all levels and disciplines. All our events are free and open to the public.