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Admission to the Program

In addition to meeting the minimum university requirements for graduate study, applicants should hold a Bachelor of Arts (with a major in Fine Arts) or a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Under special circumstances, applicants without a BA or BFA degree or without a major in Fine Arts, but with outstanding artistic or professional qualifications, may be considered for admission.

Admission is based on academic record, two letters of recommendation, a resume and portfolio of twenty images. Application for admission is made online and further instructions are available on the Department of Art website.

Degree Requirements

• Additional studio (or art history) courses may be required to attain maturity and proficiency and to complete satisfactorily the comprehensives and thesis. The number and kinds of additional courses will be stipulated by the admissions committee at the time of admission
• One public oral examination after completion of each semester of ARTS-797 Master’s Thesis Seminar (3)    and mandatory attendance at all MFA in Studio Art public oral examinations
• A thesis exhibition of original works of art in the student’s area of specialization executed independently by the student in consultation with a thesis committee of two or three faculty members. Written and photographic documentation of approved thesis is also required
• Mandatory attendance at all visiting artist lectures and critiques

Course Requirements

Required (12 credit hours).

• ARTS-600 Twentieth Century Art Theory (3)
• ARTS-601 Contemporary Art Theory (3)
• ARTS-660 Research Practicum (3)
• ARTS-661 Professional Practices (3)

Thesis (12 credit hours)

• ARTS-797 Master’s Thesis Seminar (3) (12 credit hours total)

Additional (12 credit hours)

Complete 12 credit hours from the following, or other courses approved by program director or advisor and program or school within which the course is offered:

• ARTH-600 Approaches to Art History (3)
• ARTH-601 Italian Art: Early Renaissance (3)
• ARTH-612 Modern European Art: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (3)
• ARTH-614 Women and the Avant-Garde (3)
• ARTH-615 Museums and Society (3)
• ARTH-631 American Art: European Conquest to Civil War (3)
• ARTH-632 American Art: Civil War to Civil Rights (3)
• ARTS-620 Advanced Printmaking (3)
• ARTS-630 Advanced Sculpture (3)
• ARTS-670 Expanded Media Studio: Video and Time-Based Art (3)

Master of Fine Arts

Interdisciplinary. mentor based. limitless possibilities..

Situated within Minneapolis’s vibrant art-and-design scene, MCAD's Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies is a rigorous four-semester program designed to expand your thinking and promote experimentation in your practice. Students are invited to be strongly self-directed and highly motivated as they set personalized goals and plans to guide each semester in collaboration with their chosen mentor. 

As a diverse, international community of makers, thinkers, researchers, and professionals, students explore social, cultural, and professional needs stretching across creative practices. Students are encouraged and supported in exploring wide-ranging processes and histories via rigorous studio practice, individual mentorship, and intense interdisciplinary discourse. All of our in-person, on-campus classes provide accessibility options to our students.

Hear about the MFA experience

As a Master's of Fine Arts student, you will:

• Work one-to-one with a mentor to establish goals and plans for each semester.
• Work independently and collaboratively in studios, classrooms, modern creative facilities, and public gallery spaces.
• Pursue creative work in one or more practices : animation, comic arts, drawing/painting, engaged and public arts/social practice, fiber arts and textiles, film/video, furniture design, graphic design, illustration, installation, interactive/digital media, interdisciplinary, performance, photography, printmaking/paper/books, sculpture, sound art. 
• Participate in opportunities in the Twin Cities’ creative community that includes galleries, art centers, regional funders, and nonprofits designed to set you up for success post-graduation. 
• Become part of the strong, supportive MCAD alumni network.  

Class Highlights

This 60-credit Masters of Fine Arts program required classes include: 

• Criticism and Theory
• Mentored Credits
• Graduate Critique Seminar
• Community and Context
• Thesis Preparation

There are many paths to explore with a Master's in Fine Arts. Potential careers include:

• Exhibiting Artist
• Arts Educator
• Arts Administrator
• Graphic Designer
• Photographer
• Editorial Illustrator

Current Mentor Roster Mentorship​ ​is​ ​regarded​ ​as​ ​the​ ​core​ ​of​ ​the​ ​MCAD​ MFA​ ​curriculum. Students​ ​work​ ​one-on-one​ ​with​ ​their​ ​mentor​ ​to advance​ their ​studio​ ​work,​ ​research,​ ​and​ ​professional​ ​practice.​

Current Students Current students partake in various events such as field trips, professional practice workshops, and interacting with visiting artists. Students are encouraged to utilize the program’s flexible structure by tailoring experiences to reach individual goals.

Alumni In a survey of MFA alumni from 2010-2019, 85% reported working and doing freelance work in their field of choice. 

Opportunities 

Opportunities such as funded launch programs are available to help MFA students set themselves up for success after graduation. Opportunities range across galleries, residencies, art centers, and various nonprofits such as:

• MCAD / Arrowmount University Fellows Scholarship
• Soo Visual Arts Partnership
• Forecast Public Art Design/Illustration Fellowship
• Rochester Art Center Partnership
• Wisher Sponsored Residency
• Mildred’s Lane Fellowship

See what Master of Fine Arts students are making

"I initially joined the program because I was at a point in my life where I had no discipline in my studio practice, and I felt no real foundation to the work I made. MCAD allowed me to build confidence in my work again." –Sishir Bommakanti ’18, Freelance Illustrator

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2021 MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Round 1

MFA THESIS EXHIBITION – SPRING 2021, Round 1  April 9 – 23

The 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition features 32 outstanding emerging artists and designers. Representing eight departments, these students’ ambitious and challenging research pushes beyond traditional disciplines to shape what is new and next in visual and material culture.

MFA Thesis Round #1 April 9 – April 23

Julia Dann (Graphic Design) Mystie Do (Graphic Design) Dāa Guy-Vasson (Sculpture + Extended Media) Ellen Hanson (Painting + Printmaking) Mireille Heidbreder (Photography + Film) mariah barden jones (Graphic Design) Eric Millikin (Kinetic Imaging) Audrey Reed (Theatre – Costume Design) Hanaa Safwat (Painting + Printmaking) brook vann (Kinetic Imaging)

The MFA Thesis Exhibition is held at the Anderson (907 ½ W Franklin St, Richmond) and takes place in two rounds: Round 1: April 9 — April 23; Round 2: April 30 — May15.**

**Thesis research projects by the 2021 Interior Design, Interior Environments MFA class are being presented online and can be viewed at: rampages.us/ides/

Interior Design- Interior Environments MFA ( rampages.us/ides/ )

Rhode Baptiste Elizabeth Berry Hannah Bulow Carrie Collier Ruth Deibler Sarah Kincaid Celia Steigerwald Angie Thomson Jocelyn Zavala

Participating Departments

Craft / Material Studies Graphic Design Interior Design Kinetic Imaging Painting + Printmaking Photography + Film Sculpture + Extended Media Theatre – Costume Design

Gallery Hours Tuesday–Friday 12–6pm, Saturday 12–5pm In accordance with University guidelines, all visitors to the Anderson must wear appropriate face coverings and maintain physical distancing while inside the building.

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MFA Thesis (2024)

Mfa thesis show (2024), painting • graphic design • sculpture • print media and photography • visual narrative.

April 2-20, 2024

808 Gallery • Stone Gallery • Commonwealth Gallery • 1270 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston University College of Fine Arts  School of Visual Arts  (SVA) presented the Class of 2024 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis Exhibitions, from April 2-20, 2024. The MFA  thesis exhibitions  featured works of graduating students in BU’s MFA programs in  Graphic Design ,  Painting ,  Sculpture ,  Print Media & Photography , and  Visual Narrative . This is the first thesis exhibition for the Print Media & Photography and Visual Narrative programs since their launch in 2022. With 61 participating students, the MFA Class of 2024 represents the largest cohort of graduating MFA students in the BU School of Visual Arts.

Julianne Dao, Walking Shadows. Collagraph, Chiné-colle archival inkjet print.

Sofia Barroso, Exploration of Possibilities. Cyanotype on fabric.

Ella Scheurell, Heavy Shoes, Colored pencil, watercolor sharpie on paper.

Arjun Lakshmanan, The Grand Tour-50 Iterations. Digital media.

Also new for this year, SVA’s thesis exhibitions have expanded beyond BU and the traditional gallery space. The MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition will be on view at  Boston University Art Galleries’  Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery; BU Art Galleries’ 808 Gallery hosts the MFA Print Media & Photography and MFA Graphic Design ( Side B ) Thesis Exhibitions; and the MFA Visual Narrative Thesis Exhibition is taking place at the College of Fine Arts’ Commonwealth Gallery. The MFA Sculpture Thesis Exhibition will be a satellite show off-campus, on view in Allston at 1270 Commonwealth Avenue, an empty space that was once a drugstore and pharmacy.

Mae-Chu Lin O’Connell, Boxmaker (How to build a 36-drawer Wunderkabinett in a week). Plywood, brass knobs, casters, wood screws, wood glue, epoxy, screws, nails, wood putty, and various objects.

Liam Coughlin, r/decks. OSB, dimensional lumber, towels, salvaged floor boards, adhesives and fasteners, plastic bags, garbage bags, Gatorade bottle full of spit, PEZ dispenser, sawhorses, sawdust.

“These MFA graduate students reveal highly individualized practices informed by culture, locale, historical research, texts, the property of materials, and the body’s relationship to the physical world. The studio is a site of transformation where the expansion of learning and the compression of making meet, as Painting MFA candidate James Gold aptly describes it in his catalog statement,” says  Dana Clancy , BU School of Visual Arts Director and Associate Professor of Art, “Our graduate Class of 2024 are artists and designers who have weathered much recent cultural change and flux. A sense of experimentation and attention to community are both fostered through intense studio work, dialogue, and shared social time in and across programs.”

James Gold, Mosaic Excavation with Carpets. Egg tempera, India ink, acrylic gouache, and pigmented gesso on panel.

Abbi Kenny, Atlantic Cranberry Sauce (courtesy of Weight Watchers). Acrylic, molding paste, acrylic gouache, black pepper, glitter, glass beads, muscovite mica, glass flakes, and yupo collage on canvas.

Exhibiting Students by Program

Mfa painting.

Cody Robert Hook Bluett • Sarai Bustos • Tea Chai Beer • Huakai Chen • Natalie Conway • James Gold • Abbi Kenny • Yingxue Daisy Li • Julia McGehean • Sayak Mitra • Linda Obobaifo • Stephanie Petet • Jacob Salzer • Sidharth Shah • Sophie Thervil • Ellen Weitkamp

MFA Sculpture

Helena Abdelnasser • Liam Coughlin • Alyssa Grey • Mae-Chu Lin O’Connell • Yolanda He Yang

MFA Visual Narrative

Sandeep Badal • Lafleche Giasson • Camila Kerwin • Ariel Cheng Kohane • Isabelle Rousseau • Sadie Saunders • Ella Scheuerell • Avanji Vaze • Xinhui Wang • Dajia Zhou

MFA Print Media & Photography

Sofia Barroso • Delaney C. Burns • Julianne Dao • Emily Taylor Rice

MFA Graphic Design

Charles Castro • Yidie Chen (Tica) • Qianyue Chen (Rachel) • Kristen Davis • Alexina Federhen • Dhwani Gopal Garg • Ren Lanzi • Liang Yi Lee (Gloria) • Chi Wei Lin (Eric) • Veridiana Monteiro Victorelli • Carolina Izsak • Arjun Lakshmanan • Christine Seungmin Roh • Raquel Rabines • Kristina Shumilina • Weimiao Sun (Davis) • Arfindo Briyan Santoso • Mengqi Tuo (Bella) • Dharshanya Venkataramanan • Lindsay Towle • Mengdi Wang (Cornelia) • Ash Wei • Xin Yue (Cecilia) • Yinxue Zou (Lucy) • Yingchen Zhou (Molly)

Faculty Advisors, Chairs, and Collaborators

Lynne Allen , Professor of Art, Printmaking, Chair of MFA Print Media & Photography •  Kristen Coogan , Associate Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Graphic Design •  Deborah Cornell , Professor of Art, Chair of BFA Printmaking •  Joel Christian Gill , Associate Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Visual Narrative •  Josephine Halvorson , Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Painting •  Toni Pepe , Assistant Professor of Art, Chair of Photography •  Christopher Sleboda , Associate Professor of Art, Chair of BFA Graphic Design •  David Snyder , Assistant Professor of Art, Chair of MFA Sculpture •  Lissa Cramer , Director, Boston University Art Galleries •  Dana Clancy , Director, School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions Feature Work by 61 Artists

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Meet some of artists from the inaugural class of BU’s MFA program in Visual Narrative

This week, WBUR speaks with two Boston University students who are presenting their work to become the school’s first Masters of Fine Arts graduates in visual narrative, as well as the chair of the MFA program in visual narrative Joel Christian Gill.

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BU MFA Exhibition “Sculpturecore” Takes to an Abandoned CVS to Probe at What Lies Beneath the Surface

In the off-campus show in Allston, Boston University sculpture students have created a haven that is both nostalgic and surreal.

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2024 Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition

June 21, 2024

The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art is thrilled to announce the 2024 Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition!

The 2024 Low-Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition commemorates the achievements of our Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts candidates at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Over three years, PNCA’s Low-Res MFA candidates have explored ideas, cultivated artistic practices, and formed connections in their work across a number of disciplines which transcend art, craft, and design. We invite you to join us as we celebrate and engage with the work of these incredible artists.

Join us for the Opening Reception for the 2024 Low Res MFA Thesis Exhibition on June 27 from 5pm - 8pm with special guest DJ La Paushi

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On view at Pacific Northwest College of Art, located at 511 NW Broadway

June 24 ~ July 22, 2024

Free + open to the public

Our Master of Fine Arts candidates:

Erin Boberg Doughton  Brady Wolchansky Sunshine Tourtillott Sally Jablonsky Morgan Rice R. Stranger

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October First Thursday at PNCA + North Park Blocks

The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art is excited to invite the public to the October First Thursday Art Walk in the North Park Blocks for a series of exhibition openings, performances, live music, drop-in activities and refreshments!

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We are thrilled to announce PNCA’s 2023-24 Visiting Artist Lecture Series! 

PNCA’s Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies and Center for Contemporary Art & Culture welcomes prominent artists, scholars, designers, curators, and critics from around the country and beyond, to engage with the Portland arts community.

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‘Catharsis’ exhibition showcases thesis work of MSU fine arts grads

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STARKVILLE, Miss.—Seventeen Mississippi State fine arts seniors will celebrate their recent work and upcoming graduation in a thesis exhibition across three locations on the Starkville campus.

Open May 5-11, the “Catharsis” show will include installations in the art galleries of the Visual Arts Center, Cullis Wade Depot and Colvard Student Union. Distinctive in content, medium and scale, each student’s work will showcase a variety of thoughts and ideas joined together for one exhibition.

A public reception will be held May 5, 2-4 p.m. in all three galleries with students discussing their work.

Student exhibitors include (by hometown):

BRANDON—Gabrielle Dunn, investigating social anxiety and depression and how it changes one’s world perception through an animated video trilogy.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado—Kadence Lewis, exploring emotions and the subconscious through woodcut printmaking techniques and symbolism.

COVINGTON, Louisiana—Chloe Ruggiero, focusing on portraiture to create work driven by intimate moments between friends and loved ones.

GREENVILLE—Melanie Word, focusing on oil paintings of stuffed animals of loved ones to evoke compassion and understanding and portray humanity.

HOLCOMB—Rayeanne Williams, exploring themes of anger, loss and violence through perspectives of a protagonist and antagonist.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—Rabia Siddiqui, using her interest in theology and independence to create works to process humanity.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee—Natalie May, creating works primarily with acrylic, alcohol marker and cut paper based on experiences with loved ones.

LISMAN, Alabama—Raine Phillips, addressing personal feelings across the emotional spectrum with a digital illustration series of creatures and the places they live.

MADISON—Liza Ambriz, exploring compassion and awareness toward invasive and displaced species through hand-built ceramic altars.

OCEAN SPRINGS—Madi Hart, highlighting abstract and non-objective forms through metal, masonry and woodworking.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania—Mary Chen, revolving her work around narratives inspired by personal experiences, imagination and social issues.

RIDGELAND—Abbey Temple, showcasing works using storytelling through visuals to evoke emotions, prompt reflection and ignite awe.

SOUTHHAVEN—Emily Crunk, aiming to represent difficult feelings and create a connection with her audience through the use of clay figures.

TUPELO—Hallie Andrews, highlighting fantastical imagery that explores subject matter in realized environments, as well as surreal and fractured settings; and Maury Johnston, exploring human emotions within the context of liminal spaces in her work.

WINONA—William Donovan Weathers, focusing on new meditations on relationships with intimate, subconscious and external methods of archive through the passage of time.

For more information about the artists and individual gallery hours, visit www.caad.msstate.edu/exhibitions .

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MFA Thesis Exhibitions 2021 Wei Gao

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“I am mixing fiction writing, drawing, and music to reveal art-making’s commonality in various forms.  Long term spiritual food and some real bread  is a multimedia art project. It’s a story about a special generation that grew up in Beijing in the 1990s while figuring out the maze of life and the idea of being a human. I also created a soundtrack and a series of digital drawings from the same gene pool: the book’s emotion. I am exploring methods of combining graphics, text, and various narrative strategies. I started to write “the cut” at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. When people cannot show their faces in public, we rely on other senses to believe in something. I locked myself in the garage and typed out the sentences that have been stuck in my throat. I began to recall protagonists and plots that I would never conjure under other circumstances. 

I used my iPad to create daily drawings and meditate during the writing breaks. The artwork in this book is all digital, and all produced during writing breaks. I felt like Covid-19 helped me dig into the digital world to create art, and my stubborn ego still prefers the look of old techniques of drawing and painting but translated into the virtual universe.” —Wei Gao Wei Gao is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and writer who has exhibited works internationally. He has held solo art exhibitions in Los Angeles, Beijing, and Shanghai. He is also a veteran journalist. In recent years, Wei Gao has been active in the field of future mobility.  More info at:  weigao.us

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