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Studio Art Program

Welcome to the Spring 2025 Semester!

 

The Studio Art Program at Gavilan College provides students with at strong studio experience that integrates conceptual and technical artistic skills with personal and creative exploration.  The program offers exceptional studio art courses in the foundation areas of drawing, painting, design, sculpture and art history. Additional areas of expertise include Ceramics, Art Education, Murals and Community Art, and Photography.

Students completing this program will be able to critically analyze and interpret the ways in which people through the ages have responded to artistic and cultural expression.  Fostering divergent thinking with the aim of optimizing students’ capacity for producing new and innovative ideas, and forming the foundation for this program.  Upon completing the program, students will be prepared to continue a personal, creative journey or transfer to a four-year institution for further study.

Meet Our Faculty

  • Abiam Alvarez Marquez
  • Wendy Angel
  • Kelly Campanella
  • Christine Canepa
  • Gailan Gray
  • Maureen McGuire
  • Max Rain
  • Arturo Rosette
  • Deborah Gustlin

Art Major Program

To complete the Art Major Program, the student must complete a minimum units in each category, plus a minimum of 3 additional units specified in each category, Plus a minimum of 3 additional units of Art electives to complete minimum total of 24 units.

Major Requirements:
Foundation Courses:
ART 2A Two Dimensional Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 units
ART 13 Three Dimensional Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 units
ART 3A Drawing and Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3 units
Art Hist ory Choose 3 units:
ART 1A Art History (3 units)
ART 1B Art History (3 units)
ART 20 Art of Asia (3 units)
ART 21 Ancient Americas: A History through Art (3 units)
                                                                                                       . . . minimum of 3 units
Drawing and Painting Choose 6 units:
ART 3B Drawing and Composition (3 units)
ART 14 Beginning Mural Painting (3 units)
ART 15A Beginning Painting: Form and Composition (3 units)
ART 15B Beginning Painting: Imagination and Expression (3 units)
ART 16A Watercolor Painting: Form and Composition (3 units)
ART 16B Watercolor Painting: Imagination and Expression (3 units)
ART 34A Life Drawing (3 units)
ART 34B Life Drawing (3 units)
                                                                                                       . . . minimum of 6 units
Sculpture Choose 3 units:
ART 10A Cultural History of Ceramics (3 units)
ART 10B Ceramics (3 units)
ART 12A Sculpture (2 units)
ART 12B Sculpture (2 units)
                                                                                                       . . . minimum of 3 units
Art Electives : Choose 3 units:
In addition to satisfying the requirements outlined above, students may take any class within the Art discipline to satisfy this elective requirement, with the exception of:
ART 108 (Digital Media Lab) and ART 190 (Work Experience).
                                                                                                       . . . minimum of 3 units
Total Units for Major: 24 UNITS
Plus completion of general education requirements. . . . . . . units vary
Total Units Required for A.A.:                                                     minimum of 60 UNITS

  

Dean of Student Learning, Equity, and Student Success for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences

Noah Lystrup
408-848-4702
nlystrup@gavilan.edu 

 

Division Assistant

Cecilia Ghiorzi

Division Assistant: Arts, Humanities, Social Science & STEM

Social Sciences Building Room 116

5055 Santa Teresa Blvd.

Gilroy, CA 95020

(408) 848-4701

cghiorzi@gavilan.edu

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Dean of Student Learning, Equity, and Student Success for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences

Noah Lystrup
408-848-4702
nlystrup@gavilan.edu 

 

Division Assistant: Arts, Humanities, Social Science and STEM

Cecilia Ghiorzi
Social Sciences Building Room 116
5055 Santa Teresa Blvd.
Gilroy, CA 95020
(408) 848-4701
cghiorzi@gavilan.edu



CONTACT

Max Rain

Studio Arts Faculty, Gavilan College
mrain@gavilan.edu



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