Art

Welcome to the Art Department!

The Art Department offers of a series of fine arts courses in Studio Arts, Art History, Photography and Digital Animation & 3D Design.

Brookdale students interested in Studio Art take courses in 2D design, color theory, drawing, figure drawing, painting, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and watercolor.

The Photography courses include Photography as an Art Form, courses in black and white photography, digital photography, color photography and large format photography.

Art History students enroll in Art Appreciation, History of Art: Ancient through Medieval, History of Art: Renaissance through Contemporary, and the History of Western Architecture.

Digital Animation & 3D Design students gain skills in modeling, editing, rendering, and storyboarding.

Students can earn an Associate of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art, which provides a well-rounded education with the range of liberal studies required by four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts programs.

The Center for the Visual Arts includes a beautiful Gallery for exhibiting works by professional artists, faculty, and students.

The Art Department is located in the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA building) at the north end of the Lincroft campus.

Art Degrees

Brookdale offers the following degrees and certificates in Art; click on any degree name to read more in our online catalog.

Digital Animation and 3D Design A.A.S.

Students graduating with the Digital Animation and 3D Design AAS degree will have developed skills in modeling, editing, rendering and storyboarding. They will have gained command of the basic technical skills required in today’s highly competitive animation industry. Students will complete courses that provide them with technical skills and aesthetic proficiency. This program is designed to prepare students for entry level positions in digital animation.

Link to prerequisites and requirements

Fine Arts Program A.F.A., Studio Art Option

The Associate of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art provides a well-rounded education with the adequate range of liberal studies required by four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts programs. The Studio Art Option is designed for students seeking to transfer to a four-year college or professional art school. This option provides the courses necessary at the Associate degree level to transfer to a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art or Visual Art with a concentration in Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Jewelry, or Sculpture. Because certain requirements may vary in some B.F.A. programs, students should identify transfer schools as early as possible, and work closely with counselors to insure selecting appropriate courses for smooth transfer.

Link to prerequisites and requirements

Art Option, Humanities A.A.

This option prepares the student for transfer to a four-year college or professional art school to major in the visual arts. It provides the core courses necessary for Bachelor’s degree programs in art, art education, art therapy, illustrating, jewelry, ceramics design and manufacture, and commercial art. Graduates of this option may choose to find art-related work and receive on-the-job training.

Link to prerequisites and requirements

Transfer Opportunities

Transfer Agreements by Academic Program: Articulation Agreements are formal agreements between Brookdale and other colleges and universities. These agreements define how the courses you complete at Brookdale will apply to your future bachelor’s degree when you transfer into a baccalaureate program.

Brookdale Community College is an Equal Opportunity educational institution. In order to promote this goal, the College makes positive efforts to ensure equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Image by Valeria Arvello, Color Theory Class

Remote/Live: An Exhibition of Work from Brookdale’s 2020 Fall Fine Arts Studio Classes

At Brookdale, the fine arts courses offered during the 2020 fall semester – painting, drawing, design, photography, color theory, photography, and 3D animation transitioned to a remote/live/online format in which students attended class in zoom on a specific day and at a specific time and were asked to complete their projects within whatever space they could carve out of their homes.

As professional artists, we teachers strive to give our students our technical knowledge, but we also try to give them a sense of the reality of life as an art maker. The working artist is generally faced with a need for two fundamental things: time and space. American artist Joseph Cornell completed the works that now reside in major art collections and museums at a kitchen table in his mother’s house in Queens, NY. Louise Weinberg, curator at the Queens Museum has said of Cornell:  “For a person who rarely traveled, especially out of this country, Cornell brought the world to his kitchen studio working under the ceiling he painted Giotto blue.”

This is their remote/live.