Fine Arts in Culture-Based Arts – De La Salle

Bachelor of Arts in Culture-Based Arts

Program Length: 10 Trimesters

Careers: Art Agent, Art Director, Art Historian, Arts & Culture Teacher, Ceramic Artist, Content Creator, Cultural Leader, Flatware Designer, Graphic Arts Technician, Illustrator, Jeweler, Museum Artist, Product Designer, Social Entrepreneur

Fine Arts woven with Philippine Arts and Culture–a first in the country. Our Bachelor of Fine Arts in Culture-Based Arts program explores and engages in the artistic traditions and diversity of cultural communities. In the celebration of Philippine arts and culture, build a sense of identity that will inspire you to develop culturally-influenced and innovative practices for the ever-changing global market.

Learn art history and theory, studio practices, and entrepreneurial management. Creative techniques and cultural understanding will also empower you to create art and design that is purposeful and socially relevant to our country and to the world.

A tapestry of brilliance, history and technique

This course if for you if you aspire to become a multidisciplinary artist-designer, creative entrepreneur or a cultural worker. You will learn to:

know and understand art and design history and contemporary issues as they manifest open-mindedness to varied schools of thought;
be grounded in the basic tools and techniques in visualizing concepts to formulate new artistic expressions, explore and adopt new media in the innovative realizations of art and design projects;
create projects to insightfully address contemporary concerns by referencing art history and theories and respond to cultural, social and global issues through research and creative work;
develop a portfolio of works that exemplify conceptual thinking to exhibit one’s talent by using various skills and innovative approaches;
engage in social activities to contribute in nation building by embodying Benildean core values through advocacy projects;
manifest heightened consciousness of Philippine society and culture;
serve the interest of the Filipino without prejudice to foreign influences and are equipped with the ability to adapt and translate indigenous and traditional art materials and practices with historical perspective; and
observe best practices and professional ethics in art and design and are knowledgeable in the interplay of art with the sciences and can work in a collaborative setting.

Program Innovations

CULTURAL MATERIAL EXPLORATION

Bamboo, wood, clay, rattan and grass

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Project management and cultural or social entrepreneurship

CONTENT AND CREATION MANAGEMENT

Engaging communities through digital and non-digital platforms using visual communication

Arts, creativity and innovation as a way of life.

The School of Arts, Culture, and Performance merges the relationship between our identity and our social and academic transactions within the structure of the college; the appellation fluidly describing our implicit role as meaning-makers across local and international contexts engaging in various gestures in the arts, culture, and creative industry sectors, a shared vision with the Benildean community for an extraordinary education for diversely-gifted learners.

Primed to be in their Prime

SACP continues to implement a student-centered and practice-based approach to learning and instruction. Students are constantly immersed in diverse environments through varied experiences deduced from interdisciplinary thinking and practice, professional excellence, local and international linkages and collaborative gestures, and the application of artistic processes in diverse fields.

Every nook and corner tells a story

The Design + Arts Campus, a 14-storey academic complex, is one big playground for creative minds and a venue that stimulates students to think out of the box, shift perspectives, and innovate ideas.

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