I learned to program in art classes at USC and UCLA. While you may go analog, it’s likely your tech & art skills will blend somewhere down the line.
Check out UCLA MFA Design Media Arts program [1]. Casey Reas [2] teaches there. He co-created Processing at MIT [3]. Arduino programs are called “sketches” because the Arduino IDE derives from Processing [4]. Art & tech always push each other forward :-)
[1]: https://design.ucla.edu/programs/mfa
[2]: https://arts.ucla.edu/single/casey-reas/#!
[3]: https://medium.com/processing-foundation/a-modern-prometheus...
[4]: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/connecting-arduino-to-p...