An expansive Texas registering 10,000 students in art schools and offers 13 schools accredited by the Council for Interior Design. Among the leading programs are offered at the University of North Texas-College of fine arts and design, Rice University, and Baylor University.
The University of Texas offers a program accredited and NSAD-have art Department at nine campuses across the State, including Austin, San Antonia and Arlington. Texas also offers famous museums including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, McNay Art Museum and the San Antonio Museum of art and the Museum of Art in Austin.
The College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, recently completed a new Visual Arts Center. Two faculty members named Guggenheim Fellows for 2010. Marcia Gay Harden graduates listed is the year 2010 commencement speaker at the University of Texas at Austin-school that clearly appreciate the art.
Austin is one of the largest and most diverse art in this country. The Division of Art Studio offers seven majors: ceramics, metals, printing and drawing, photography, Printmaking, sculpture, and Transmedia, a major with an emphasis on experimental practice includes work in nature such as sound, installation, interactive, web and hypertext. The school also offers a selective 3-year MFA in Studio Art Program sign-up of 30 students.
The College of Visual and performing arts school of art (SOA) at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas offers NASAD-accredited degree program in studio art, art history, visual studies, and communication design. The BFA in Studio Art focuses on the development of the art of personal expression of students and technical skills as well as instill an understanding and appreciation of both the legacy of art and contemporary art. The school also offers a Master's degree and doctoral programs in fine arts, focusing on the study of critical and artistic practice.
Rice University, one of the nation's premier research universities, offering a commitment to undergraduate education and offers a major in Studio Art Department of Visual Arts and Drama. Students are encouraged to explore courses in various fields such as philosophy, anthropology and history. Students at Rice has access to creative resources for the city of Houston Texas and dynamic galleries, studios and exhibition visits in their first year in preparation for the senior year which focus on intensive studio work.
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, offering both BFA and BA in Art Studio. Students can concentrate in Ceramics, Fabric Design Baylor, painting and other Visual Arts. BA students are encouraged to take courses in the entire concentration, and are required to enroll in a larger percentage of liberal arts courses compared to students in the BFA degree tracks. Baylor also offers a BA in architecture in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Students complete the special disciplines at Baylor exam, portfolio, exhibition and research papers, depending on the degree of their lines. Baylor House Museum of Art Martin, Allbritton Art Institute for the study of the arts of the nineteenth century and twentieth century ceramics Harding black and Archive dedicated to scholarship in the art of ceramics.