About this course:

• The purpose of the program is to provide professional training for students who wish to pursue a variety of careers in the field of art, as working artists and designers, critics, managers and directors, or in the field of education as teachers and researchers.
• The MFA in Studio Art will provide students with the opportunity to build significant skills in the history, research, practice, and discourse of art and design.
• A creative atmosphere that encourages and challenges student interests is promoted.
• The goal is to create a community in which evaluation, critique, and open exchange stimulates artistic excellence and innovation.
• The program is designed to encourage individual graduate work augmented by faculty input.

The student will be able to:

• Generate conceptual artistic solutions using a variety of media.
• Assess the efficacy of design in relation to its context.
• Integrate aesthetic and visual design principles into original compositions.
• Develop a cohesive artistic body of work.
• Formulate research based artistic solutions based on knowledge of the literature/artifacts of the discipline.