Graduate Fine Arts Studio (MFA)
Program Overview
The Master of Fine Arts Studio is a two- to three-year program offering an intensive study in contemporary art through painting, non-toxic printmaking, sculpture, new forms, and illustration. You may combine courses from these areas to gain a more personalized studio experience. Your experience will culminate in a cohesive body of work, driven by a thesis proposal, and resulting in a thesis paper and exhibition in the college’s premier Bevier Gallery. The faculty is committed to providing individual direction through critical dialogue and reflection. Students have access to well-equipped studios, including individual, private studio space.
The Fine Arts Studio Painting concentration allows you to explore conceptual and traditional approaches to image content and media-based techniques.
The Fine Arts Studio Non-Toxic Printmaking concentration encompasses advanced intaglio, relief, and Image On® non-toxic printmaking techniques. In this concentration, you will gain a complete understanding of printmaking work methodologies and experimental procedures.
The Fine Arts Studio Sculpture concentration offers both additive and subtractive approaches to sculpture, using a wide variety of materials to generate work. Facilities for assemblage, casting, welding, and woodworking are available for exploring, experimenting, and creating your work.
The Fine Arts Studio New Forms concentration focuses on research strategies involving non-traditional art media and materials for creating concept-based works of art. Unlimited possibilities exist in this concentration for incorporating objects, processes and activities, resulting in combinations of installation art, performance, and kinetic, digital and mechanistic expressions.
The Fine Arts Studio Illustration concentration fuses traditional problem-solving-based illustration with more personal, self-authored forms of pictorial strategies. Here you can develop an extended body of work personified by your individual expression, perhaps involving narrative content. You will be able to work using traditional, digital, or three-dimensional media.
