san antonio college

We aim to provide you with the fullest visual arts education by nurturing your aesthetic sensibility; to provide you with a tailored blend of intellectual and technical skills; to maintain a safe and healthy working environment so that you and your fellow students may reach your fullest potential.

Student Access: Visual Arts studio classes are limited to twenty students and Arts lecture classes such as Art History and Art Appreciation average 30 students per class.

The Visual Arts & Technology Center facility ranks among the best of its kind. Everything needed is within your reach! At the heart of the VATC is a two story gallery which displays changing exhibitions of work by professional artists and graphic designers of local, national and international prominence, in addition to the annual Juried Student Exhibition. Wireless Internet access is available for enrolled students for research, course work, and college communications throughout the Visual Arts Center building. A digital image resource system provides art history resources in each studio and classroom. The San Antonio College Library, with a permanent collection of over 400,000 volumes, is one block away, and San Antonio's modern Main Library is a fifteen minute walk from the campus.

The Koehler Cultural Center, a Texas Historic Landmark which houses the ceramics, art metals and jewelry design studios, is adjacent the VATC. The expansive, pastoral grounds of the Koehler Center serve as a gateway to the newly remodeled inner campus mall and joins the main entrance of the Visual Arts & Technology Center. Student parking is available adjacent to both buildings.

High Technology. It may be said, with an eye for historic analogy and a healthy note of irony, that the graphics computer has done for the image and visual communication what the invention of the Gütenberg printing press did for the written word. We are on the threshold of a revolution in the use and value of the visual language which our culture has for so long taken for granted. With the exponential increase in visual information brought by electronically generated mass communications, the digitized image can only be capable of as much aesthetic and cultural value as artists are able to bring to it. The educational philosophy of the Visual Arts & Technology department includes a recognition of the need to both understand the digitized image visually and to educate students to a level of visual literacy necessary for effective use of the computer as a communications tool.Macintosh and Windows compatible graphic computer platforms provide the best and most accessible working environment for you as you enter the digital frontier. Extensive font collections, a continuously updated graphics software library, text, image and object scanning capability, digital slide/film production capability, 32 bit and 48 bit color imaging capabilities; and digital audio/video to DVD, and multiple digital file types creation and transfer are available. Our facility and instruction enables you to enter the arena of computer generated graphics and move to any level of sophistication of which you are capable.

We will provide you with the most accessible and diverse computer graphics work environment possible within the means of the department and college. Coupled with foundation courses in fine arts drawing, two dimensional design, color theory and art appreciation courses at the freshman level, the Digital Design program offers a balance of conceptual development, research, design, technical skill and plenty of instructor-guided, hands-on experience. The sophomore year allows flexibility in the students' main area of concentration, including an optional cooperative education program.