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Interaction & UI/UX Design

Courses in visual design, user experience, design strategies, web design, and motion graphics are taught by a faculty that works as creatives professionals.

Title IX: Sex-Based Discrimination Prevention & Response

Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and the policies of Academy of Art University prohibit sex-based discrimination in our educational programs and activities as well as our admission and employment practices.

School of Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media

Make the music that moves the world. At the School of Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media, you can turn your love of great music into a brilliant career. Film, television, video games, and the Internet have turned the world into one big concert stage, and today’s musicians need to have the technological savvy to compose for it. Our courses teach the skills you’ll need to help you pursue a career as an orchestrator, sound designer, or composer.

Music Scoring & Composition

It’s tough to avoid visual media. And no matter where you see it—full-length features, short clips on you phone, immersive video games—chances are it is enhanced by the accompanying music. The craft of creating music for the myriad media that surrounds us has become a highly desirable career. As a student in the Music Scoring and Composition degree program, you gain the creative skills and technological know-how to help you become music industry professional.

Fine Art Degree

Fashion Art Direction (MA)

The MA in Fashion Art Direction program will train students to think critically and create an industry-standard visual portfolio relevant to interview as Fashion Art Directors, Creative Directors, Visual Merchandisers, etc.

School of Architecture Student Experience

Voice-Over Room

Record voice-over tracks and sound effects on our 4-track ProTools console in our industry-standard sound booth.

School of Fine Art | School of Fine Art - Faculty

For more than 30 years, Craig Nelson has depicted figures, landscapes, California coastal vistas, and various environments in rich, vibrant oils. He has painted countless movie posters, including the one-sheets for Slap Shot, The Monster Squad, and The Incredible Journey; many book covers; and album covers for the likes of Natalie Cole (Thankful) and Rick Nelson (Country). Some of his most prestigious works have been his Broadway production posters for Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers and Proposals; both originals are in the playwright’s private collection.

Alum Mickey Casab on Starting and Sustaining an Acting Career

“Start now!” That’s the advice Academy of Art University graduate and professional actor Mickey Casab has for students in the School of Acting and others interested in pursuing the discipline. “Not to book things necessarily,” he explains, “but to get experience. It’s going to make a huge difference.”

A Fresh Perspective in Product Design

Beau Oyler is an Academy of Art University alum who embodies our school’s core values of inclusivity and collaboration. In 2005, he graduated from the Academy’s School of Industrial Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Today, he is a successful design entrepreneur and CEO of his own award-winning design agency, Enlisted Design

ART U Halftime Report: February 16-28