Course Listings: Applied Visual Arts Courses
Major Description
Possible Careers:
- Commercial Illustrator
- Retail Display Designer
- Ad Layout Designer
- Visual Arts Generalist
- Freelance or Self-Employment
Skilled visual artists find challenging careers in many areas of creative service such as publishing, advertising and visual merchandising. You can take the opportunity to start your own business in a creative field, as the education in this field is diversified and covers a myriad of creative professions.
Few career opportunities offer more excitement and chances for creative expression than Applied Visual Arts. The program prepares you to use artistic techniques to effectively communicate ideas and information to business and consumer audiences with illustrations and other forms of digital or printed media. Instruction includes areas of design principles, creative problem solving, concept design, illustration, layout, color, typography, advertising and signage. You develop skills in techniques such as drawing, painting, collage, and computer graphics.
Nature of Work
A visual arts career is a profession of imaginary and creative expression and can range from designing a layout for an advertisement to illustrating visuals for a publication to creating an identity for a new company. There is a high level of computer graphic work in this field. Artists in the commercial field may design signage, create logos, illustrate, paint murals or work in other artistic and computer design areas.
Program Delivery
You can begin this program fall or spring semester. Courses are primarily offered during the day, however some courses are made available in the evening. Full- or part-time starts are available.
After DCTC
DCTC has transfer agreements for this program with the following colleges: Metropolitan State University, Southwest State University and Saint Mary’s University.