School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/SMFA: Call for Applications

The Master of Fine Arts graduate program provides an education in the fine arts that is rigorous and engaging integrating multiple discourses through the development of practical and critical skills across diverse media and disciplines.

Our students and faculty are actively committed to developing their artistic practices and intellectual identities in a global fine art environment.

The MFA graduate program supports the forging and inventing of contemporary art practices through the promotion of individual innovation and creative collaborations that extend beyond the learning community of the School into the local and global cultures of art.

Graduate Faculty: Marilyn Arsem, Gerry Bergstein, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mark Cooper, Erica Daborn, Bonnie Donohue, Barbara Gallucci, Jane Gillooly, John Schulz, Tony Schwensen, Jeannie Simms, Mary Ellen Strom

April 12, 2010 Graduate Colloquium: Re-Imagining Home: A Site for Personal and Social Transformation

This year’s colloquium—with visiting artists Mark Dion, J .Morgan Puett, Fritz Haeg, Rebecca Kneale Gould, and Stephanie Smith—is centered on the subject of home as a site for personal and societal transformation. Each year, the MFA graduate program offers topics for in-depth examination inviting artists, curators and critics to join graduate students and faculty for a day of presentations and panel discussions. SMFA’s graduate candidates participate in proposing panel discussions and identifying artists from around the globe to participate.

Visiting Artists 2007-09 include: Camilo Alvarez, Stephen Andrews, AA Bronson, Jonathan Calm, Lalla Assia Essaydi, Sheila Gallagher, Marc Handelman, Amelia Jones , Helge Meyer, Jason Middlebrook, Vik Muniz, Barbara Pollack, Walid Raad, Tomas Rivas, Dario Robleto, Dana Schutz, Taryn Simon, Sara Sze, Tan Vam Tram, Krzysztof Wodiczko.

Since 1997, 10 MFA graduates have won Joan Mitchell Foundation grants, more than any other MFA program competing for the award. Learn more about our alums at http://www.smfa.edu/alumni-achievement.

The mission of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is to provide an education in the fine arts that is interdisciplinary and self-directed for motivated artists of any age, background or level of experience. This education values cultural, artistic, and intellectual diversity; it embraces a wide range of media; it stresses the development of individual vision; it values the process of art making more than adherence to curricular rules; it stays deeply in touch with the international world of art. If the mission is constant, its practice is always evolving. This is an ideal school for people who are willing to break boundaries and shape the future.

For more information about programs, faculty, admissions requirements and financial aid:

http://www.smfa.edu/mfa

http://www.smfa.edu/faculty

http://www.smfa.edu/admissions

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ∙ Graduate Admissions Office
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 Tel: 617-369-3626 or 800-643-6078
admissions@smfa.edu
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