Program Overview
The Art program offers a wide range of learning opportunities so students can:

• satisfy degree requirements
• transfer to four-year colleges or universities
• develop professionally
• find personal enrichment
• enhance their appreciation of the visual arts

The visual arts curriculum is designed to prepare the artists or arts educator with a foundation of skills for further growth and to provide continuing education opportunities for local artists.

The initial emphasis is on drawing and design skills including studies of line and tonal control, perspective theories, spatial concerns, and building an understanding of the elements and principles of form that constitute the basic language of the visual artists. Various media areas of the arts and crafts are emphasized in specific courses representing all the major two- and three-dimensional media as well as art history. Emphasis is also placed on the thematic nature of the visual arts. Teaching strategies are designed to cultivate an understanding of the various themes and issues that the visual arts has the potential to articulate. This content-based approach to art-making further enriches the art education the student will experience. For art majors, this affords an opportunity to build a significant portfolio of work in a variety of media areas.

This curriculum is recommended for students preparing for transfer into programs in the fine arts, art education, art history, graphic design, architecture, computer art, illustration or other commercial art areas, museum studies or arts management.

Visual Arts Courses

Scholarship Opportunities

Full-time Faculty

• James Craig
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-5545
  Email: jcraig@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.F.A., University of Montana
  B.F.A., Florida Atlantic University
   
  Courses taught at CBC:
  Into to Art, Design, Sculpture, Studio Problems
  
  
• Tracy Petre
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-5541
  Email: tpetre@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.F.A., University of Cincinnati
  B.A., M.A., Central Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
Drawing, Art History, Painting, Illustration, Studio Problems

• Gregory Pierce
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-5542
  Email: gpierce@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.F.A., San Diego State University
  B.F.A., New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University

Courses taught at CBC:
Intro to Art, Design, Pottery, Studio Problems

Adjunct Faculty

• Howard Barlow
  Location: Ellensburg
  Email: fluffyhoward@hotmail.com
  Education: M.F.A., Central Washington University
  B.A., Central Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
Intro to Art

• Christopher DeGraaf
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-5531
  Email: cdegraaf@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: Diploma in Computer Design Technology - Art Institute of Seattle
  B.F.A., University of Puget Sound - Tacoma

Courses taught at CBC:
Graphic Design, Digital Art and Design

• Mary Dryburgh, Curator of the Esvelt Gallery
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-4864
  Email: mdryburgh@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.F.A., University of Wisconsin Madison
  B.A., University of Washington

Courses taught at CBC:
Intro to Art, Professional Practices 

• Ron Gerton
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-4864
  Email: rgerton@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: BSME, Colorado State University

Courses taught at CBC:
Jewelry Casting 1, Jewelry Casting 2, Studio Problems– Jewelry Casting

• Vicki Gerton
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-4864
  Email: vgerton@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: B.S., Colorado State University
  Master in Teaching, Washington State University

Courses taught at CBC:
Surface Design

• Vicki Gravenslund
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-4864
  Email: vgravenslund@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School
  B.A., Whitman College

Courses taught at CBC:
Intro to Art, Pottery, Studio Problems

• Zach Mazur
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-5531
  Email: zmazur@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.F.A., Washington State University
  B.F.A. in Photography, Columbia College Chicago

Courses taught at CBC:
Photography

• Ted Neth, Emeritus Faculty
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-5531
  Email: nethb@msn.com
  Education: M.F.A., University Idaho
  B.F.A., Central Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
Intro to Art, Jewelry, Studio Problems 

• Karen Starkey
  Location: P Building
  Phone: (509) 542-4864
  Email: kstarkey@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: B.F.A., University of New Mexico
  Fellowship, Yale University

Courses taught at CBC:
Drawing, Watercolor, Studio Problems