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Program-at-a-glance
Length of Study

2 years full time

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Study Options

Selected first-year courses are available on a part-time basis.

Credential Granted

Fine Art Diploma 

Intake(s)

September 

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Transferability

Use your Fine Art diploma to apply to the third year of Bachelor of Fine Art programs and other advanced art programs in Canada and the United States.

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Are you passionate about art? Do you love learning new things?

WE HAVE A [ PROGRAM ] FOR THAT.

Visual art is an invaluable gift to society. Through art our culture is recorded, interpreted, and made meaningful. You have remarkable gifts to give through your art—your passion for ideas and making things, your special way of seeing and experiencing the world, your stories that are ready to be told.

You can start your Bachelor of Fine Arts degree by taking two years at MacEwan University, where we’re passionate about your success. 

Learn

In our small classes your instructors find out who you are, how you learn best and how to build on your strengths. All students in the program contribute to the learning experience of others. The diversity of age, cultural background, and art experience represented in our student body creates a rich learning environment.

From a broad range of studio and art history classes you will gain understanding and develop your abilities in:

  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Traditional and contemporary art practices
  • Visual language fluency
  • Technical skills in a variety of media
  • Historical, personal, and international issues that influence art practices

Practice

The Centre for the Arts and Communications campus in west Edmonton, Alberta, provides a creative, supportive environment, where no student falls through the cracks. Apply classroom knowledge and your creative talent in our studios to:

  • Create
  • Analyze and critique
  • Exhibit

Succeed

Highly respected by art organizations and educational institutions throughout Canada, graduates are welcomed into their third year of degree programs at degree granting art colleges and universities.

Graduates also work as artists and muralists, teachers and professors, photographers and illustrators, museum preparators and curators, entrepreneurs and gallery owners, product, graphic, and interior designers, art and business administrators, writers, shop technicians, art historians and many more exciting careers.