The graduate program is a two-year studio-based program in art that has been highly successful in preparing artists for professional careers in making, exhibiting and teaching. The faculty is committed to a vibrant mix of practices, media, technologies, and critical approach; we seek students of exceptional capability and diverse practice, and support graduate studies with significant programs that encourage experimentation, individual development and depth of thought.

Graduates of the division have a presence in almost every major American city and are represented in major museums and collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alums also are represented on the faculty in tenured or tenure-track positions at more than 20 institutions.

Students who earn the M.F.A. in Studio Art develop a substantial body of work of uniformly high quality and of distinct originality, and have clear intellectual grasp of the broad contexts, historical and current, within which they and their work function. The degree is an intensive, two-year period of focused study, terminating with the M.F.A. qualifying exhibition.

M.F.A. Studio Art