SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE . Visual Arts Department

FINE ARTS: Visual Arts (Studio Art & Art History - Arts and Sciences Division)
The College’s Department of Visual Arts offers coursework that meets the recommended transfer curriculum of the Texas Association of Schools of Art (TASA).

Students planning for a Baccalaureate Degree in Art or Art History should check with the
four-year school of choice for a list of specific courses that will transfer. Students should consult the Visual Arts Department office for academic advising and a suggested curriculum. Students with a concentration in art, planning to transfer to a college or university, must maintain no less than “C” in all art courses as well as a cumulative average of “C” for graduation.

Studio Art and Art History majors can contact any Full-Time Fine Art Faculty member for advisement on transfer and degree options. Associate degrees in Art are available as Transfer degrees.

Art Transfer and Portfolio Day:

Fine Art courses are part of a general fine art transfer curriculum to four-year accredited colleges and universities. Our courses transfers to a wide range of four-year universities and schools of art around the U.S. Consult with your transfer institution for more information on their transfer credit equivalencies and acceptance of transfer credits toward degrees.

Portfolio Days are held annually at the Visual Arts Center. Internationally reknown art institutes annually recruit our students and provide valuable information to prospective transfer students regarding degree opportunities, portfolio development and review, and student life. Schools of Art and public universities generally accept the visual arts transfer curriculum without loss of credit. Our students are recruited by major institutions from as far away as The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Art Institute. And our students are successful! Former Visual Arts students have received prime recruitment scholarships to attend Maryland Art Institute, Cornell University, the Kansas City Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts & Crafts, Pratt Art Institute, Parsons, Minneapolis School of Art and Design, Ohio State University, University of Wisconsin, and the University of Texas in Austin. The San Francisco Art Institute annually offers a full scholarship for a student selected by the Visual Arts faculty and Texas A&M Corpus Christi has dedicated an annual scholarship to a departmental nominee. The Portfolio Days web page lists participating schools of art and art institutes with links to their websites. For more information on admission requirements, degree plans and offerings, financial aid and scholarships, and student and city life, please visit the schools' websites.

The department's Portfolio Committee provides students who are sufficiently ambitious to do the hard work of developing a competitive portfolio, valuable information about these schools and critical feedback on their preparation. The ability of our students to compete in this way illustrates the high quality of student preparedness upon completion of Visual Arts programs and the resulting scope of our national reputation. Contact a full-time faculty member for transfer advising.