MFA Studio Art in Sculpture

The MFA program is a 3-year program, and encourages advanced aesthetic and conceptual development through self-directed exploration. Professional dialogue, discussion and critical thinking are at the core of this program. Independent studio work is balanced with intensive investigation of critical, conceptual, and historical issues. Graduate students receive critiques from Sculpture Area and School of Art faculty, as well as from visiting artists.Graduate students are encouraged to work in an interdisciplinary manner; student work within the graduate sculpture program varies widely by both material and subject matter. Graduate students each take 5 credits of the Graduate Sculpture Seminar for their first four semesters. This course has two parts: independent self-directed studio work and participation in a seminar class aimed at placing this work in a critical, conceptual, and historical context. All course work including elective and art history requirements are completed in the first two years. The third year of the MFA program is devoted solely to the development of the thesis exhibition.