Visual Arts - Fine Arts

Welcome. The art department at SMC is a great place to begin your professional education. The instructors that make up our faculty of are all practicing artists with long careers in teaching. Our department combines high expectations in a close-knit environment so you won't get lost. Our art students have transferred to every major university and art school in the region. If you do well here you'll have a smooth transfer and do well wherever you go.

SMC offers foundations courses required of art majors everywhere. These are 2-D Design, Beginning and Advanced Drawing, and the 2-semester Art History sequence. We have additional art courses in Painting, Watercolor, Ceramics, Photography, Glass Blowing and Graphic Design.

Faculty Contact

David Baker	David Baker received his B.S. in Art Education from Western Michigan University and his M.F.A. in Painting from Indiana State University. Mr. Baker arrived at Southwestern in 1981 after eight years of public school teaching. His teaching duties at SMC include Drawing, Painting, Watercolor, Design and Art Appreciation. He teaches at the Ox-Bow Summer School of Art and gives private workshops. Mr. Baker is represented by Vesuvius Gallery, Glenn, Michigan.
Fine Arts Instructor (269) 782-1223 dbaker@swmich.edu