Skidmore College – Department of Art (Studio Art)

In short

The Art Department of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, based in the Saisselin Art Building, offers a studio art major with areas that include ceramics, fiber arts, jewelry and metals, communications design, digital media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Ceramics students work in separate handbuilding and wheel studios, with gas and electric kilns, an outdoor area for raku, pit, salt and soda firing, and glaze and clay mixing rooms. Fiber arts covers weaving on floor, tapestry and digital dobby looms, resist dyeing, sewing, screen printing and computerised knitting, while jewelry and metals teaches soldering, fabrication, forging, raising, lost-wax and sand casting and precision machining.