The drawing area is committed to realizing the potential of each individual and to provide a challenging context for artistic development. Each student artist is led to simultaneously explore historical traditions while being encouraged to innovate. MFA students with concentrations in all studio areas work in drawing classes and often bring their processes, materials, and ideas to works on paper. This creates a climate in which a breadth of ideas are shared and welcomed by those student artists concentrating in drawing and painting.
The drawing area shares graduate studios with the painting and textiles areas. There are two spacious drawing classrooms that house both classes and open-model figure drawing sessions. There are individual graduate studios for a maximum of three to five M.F.A. drawing candidates.