PAINTING & DRAWING
Within this specialization, graduate students are encouraged to examine and explore all the creative possibilities offered by two-dimensional art forms, while continuing to develop their own personal styles of expression. Students are encouraged to broaden their perceptual awareness through observation, translation, and invention of images and to develop their critical skills through discussion of the historical precedents of their work.

SCULPTURE
This area enables graduate students to develop proficiency in various three-dimensional processes, materials, and techniques. Sculpture's emphasis on understanding the world of contemporary expression aims to strengthen and focus each student's sense of personal direction in the arts.

CERAMICS
The Ceramics area provides the possibility of engagement with contemporary art and culture as it interfaces with ceramic media. Graduate students are challenged to experiment with form and meaning in traditional genres, or to originate expanded definitions of ceramics and mixed media, including ceramic elements in performance, architecture, and other installations.

NEW GENRES
The New Genres curriculum includes performance, installation, projected image, video, film, audio, digital, hybrid and emerging art forms. New Genres is a practice which begins with ideas and then moves to the appropriate form or media for that particular idea, sometimes inventing entirely new sites of cultural production, new methodologies, technologies, or genres in the process. The area gives emphasis to questioning preconceived notions of the role of art in culture and its relationship to a specific form or medium.

o Art Department: New Genres Area: http://www.art.ucla.edu/newgenres
o Art Department: Digital Studio: http://www.art.ucla.edu/digitalstudio

PHOTOGRAPHY
Focusing on the interrelation of photography and art, study in this area is directed toward works of art made using photographs. Ability to understand and discuss photography's unique historical, material, and narrative potential is emphasized over technical considerations. Work in installation art and video in conjunction with photography is encouraged.

o Art Department: Photography area:http://www.art.ucla.edu/photography

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIO
The Interdisciplinary Studio specialization combines directed research and studio practice within a context which aims to provide students with a critical forum for exploring site- and debate-specific forms of institutional critique. The specialization encourages inter-area projects which involve the theoretical procedures or material processes of other academic disciplines.