2024 BFA Exhibition
This website showcases Senior Capstone projects from 2024 BFA Candidates in Animation & Interactive Media, Graphic Design, and Studio Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Art and Design department. Learn more about the department here.
2024
Student Galleries
Student Galleries
Animation and Interactive Media are vibrant and rapidly evolving fields of cultural production. Both of these disciplines play key roles in art (video, installation, net art, etc.), design (user experience, interaction), entertainment (films, games), and even communication and journalism (infographics and data visualization). In today’s rapidly changing world marked by environmental, political, and social upheavals it is becoming more and more vital to imagine alternative futures.
AIM (Animation and Interactive Media) makes each practice stronger and prepares students to become animators, game designers, communicators, and artists active within the rapidly evolving new media world.
The Graphic Design Capstone is a self-directed project that spans a year. Final work includes comprehensive studio projects with emphasis on design thinking & research processes. These projects involve writing, critical thinking, design systems, and final presentations across a wide-range of subjects including education, social justice and branding.
The students are required to deliver the work on multiple platforms including print, social media, motion graphics, and web design.
The Studio Art Capstone provides each student an opportunity to develop their work in a one-year intensive, studio practice as they build an original, inventive, and cohesive body of work.
Students learn to examine their research in a historical and contemporary context, emphasizing critical thinking and integrative learning. Each year’s thesis show provides continuing evidence of art’s ability to invite, engage, and embrace divergent sensibilities.