MFA Fine Arts

Our Mission

The MFA program provides an artistic learning environment where artists of different backgrounds, ages, experiences, and approaches to creative practice can flourish together. Our courses, events, studios, labs, galleries, and social spaces are welcoming places where everyone in our community can develop as artists and as engaged participants in society. The program encourages emerging artists to think critically and challenge existing modes of expression.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Students in MFA Fine Arts will:

• Conceive, develop, and execute a successful body of work that reflects critical engagement with their interests, experiences, and values.
• Conduct a robust and sustained research inquiry into a range of intellectual and critical disciplines in art and other related disciplines in order to develop a rich set of informational resources and an authentic, independent point of view.
• Locate their own studio practice within the field of art history, criticism, and theory, based in deep examination of current issues and discourses.
• Develop advanced capabilities with technologies that will aid in the creation, dissemination, and documentation of their work.
• Develop and practice the written and spoken communication skills needed to effectively articulate conceptual and aesthetic agendas to public and art world audiences.
• Cultivate the self-confidence, self-reliance, and camaraderie necessary to sustain a professional career.

Degree Requirements

All programs’ curricula are developed in response to Program Learning Outcomes, which signify what students learn within a degree program or emphasis area. All program learning outcomes respond to overarching Institutional Learning Outcomes. View the MFA in Fine Arts program learning outcomes here or request information.