BFA · undergraduate
Image-making for editorial, entertainment, surface design and fine-art contexts, with tracks in several directions.
Image-making for editorial, entertainment, surface design and fine-art contexts, with tracks in several directions.
Tuition is $26,400 per term plus a studio fee of $450 and a technology fee of $260. The priority application deadline for fall entry is Jan 15, 2027; the final deadline is Apr 1, 2027. Questions: admissions@workbench.example.
Selected work from this programme appears in the galleries once it is cleared for public release.
Published by the Illustration department · review date 2027-02-14. Figures on this page are single-source facts owned by Finance, Admissions and the Registrar.
Admissions
Portfolio feedback, visits and the application, with an admissions counselor.
Department Chair
Chair, Illustration. Faculty are working designers and artists; names and portraits in this wireframe are invented.
Every day
A student and a graduate of the department, with their work, chosen afresh each day from everyone who shows work publicly. 14 of 456 students and 3 graduates show work here.
Student of the day
Illustration · Expected class of 2028
Hiro is a Illustration student, expected class of 2028, working in digital, interested in work that lives in public: streets, stations, shelves. (Placeholder statement; the student writes their own.)
Alumni of the day
Illustration · Class of 2004
Kwame graduated from Illustration in 2004 and is on a second career in the same field, working in photograph, film and model. (Placeholder statement; the graduate writes their own.)
Gallery
Eight works from the department, a fresh selection every day; the full gallery and the directory have everyone.
The lighthouse keeper's cat 3
Gabriel Fedra
Short film: Night shift
Jana Avenir
Chair in bent ply
Jana Avenir
Market morning 3
Dario Sentinel
Editorial: the long commute
Lior Bembo
Wayfinding for a county hospital
Jana Avenir
Concept art: the orchard city
Tegan Akzidenz
Photographic essay: the 110
Tegan Akzidenz
Course of Study
In the department
Fri, Nov 6 · 4:00 PM · Illustration studios, Hillside
Senior show walkthrough with the chair
The chair walks the senior show with students, families and visitors.
department eventFri, Dec 11 · 6:00 PM · South Campus galleries
The term's graduating students show their final work.
college eventFrom the department's teachers and leaders
Article · Oct 15, 2026
Why our first-term students spend a week drawing sound, weather and memory before they draw a single figure.
Ann Field, Chair, Illustration
Article · Oct 8, 2026
Illustration, Fine Art and Graphic Design shared a hallway for a term. The dean on what happened next.
Sean Adams, Dean, Division of Visual Art and Communication
Aggregated from the official accounts
Instagram · Domenic Morea, Interim lead · Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications · Oct 13, 2026
Illustration's painting studio at golden hour.
