Several schools in Minnesota offer photography programs.
Many colleges and universities offer photography courses and degrees. Some schools specialize in photography and other visual arts while others offer photography as part of a larger art curriculum. Both types of schools are found in Minnesota, and students in the state can earn photography-related degrees at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
College of Visual Arts
Located in St. Paul, the College of Visual Arts offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography, graphic design, fine arts, illustration and interdisciplinary design. The college started in 1924 and sits in the residential section of Summit Hill and Ramsey Hill. The school's photography program gives students an in-depth understanding of both digital and analog photographic processes. The school also teaches alternative and historical processing techniques such as cyanotype, gum bichromate, platinum palladium and compounding sensitizers. The College of Visual Arts has a large photo studio equipped with professional-grade studio equipment including studio lighting, seamless backdrops and tripods and reflectors. The college also has matte cutting, dry mounting and copy camera equipment available to its students. A separate building houses the black and white and color darkrooms, film labs, student lounge and the equipment checkout area.
College of Visual Arts
344 Summit Ave.
Saint Paul, MN 55102
651-757-4000
cva.edu
Minnesota State University-Moorhead
The art and design school at Minnesota State University-Moorhead offers a degree program with an emphasis on photography. Students seeking a degree in studio art can declare photography as their major, and the school offers both a B.A. and B.F.A. in photography. The B.F.A. requirement includes courses such as basic drawing, history of art, introduction to photography and photography studio. Additional degree requirements include a freshman portfolio review, junior portfolio review and B.F.A. critique and exhibition. The program teaches both traditional and contemporary image making techniques, including image development, portraiture, studio lighting, composition and retouching and negative manipulation. Students seeking either the B.F.A. or B.A. degrees in studio art with a major in photography typically must minor in art to complete the degree requirements.
Minnesota State University-Moorhead
1104 Seventh Ave. S.
Moorhead, MN 56563
800-593-7246
mnstate.edu
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota's department of art offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in art with a concentration in photography. The two degrees offered are the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Fine Arts. Course studies include concepts in visual art, photography silver processes, photography, digital photography, experimental video and photography the extended image. The graduate degree program offers a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in photography. This program gets limited to six students in residence every year. Graduate program student course work includes digitally processing prints, large-format camera field work, installing mixed-media displays and alternative chemical processes.
University of Minnesota
405 21st Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-625-8096
artdept.umn.edu
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