University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
School of Art and Design
408 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-0855
http://www.art.uiuc.edu
The MFA Program of the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a three-year course of study committed to training artists and designers at the highest professional levels, offering an MFA degree with specializations in Painting, Sculpture, Photography, New Media, Ceramics, Metal, Graphic Design, and Industrial Design. The School of Art + Design is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and is regarded as one of the outstanding public university art programs in the United States.
The MFA program at the University of Illinois emphasizes the development of individual or collaborative practice in preparation for careers in both fine arts and client based contexts, including gallery practice, product/media design, university research/education, public or community-based work, curatorial practice, performance or activism. Applicants are invited from a variety of backgrounds, preferably but not exclusively with BA or BFA degrees in the fine arts. MFA students at the University of Illinois are typically motivated, independent, and interested in contextualizing their traditional and non-traditional practices within a stimulating environment of rigorous interdisciplinary critique.
Tuition waivers are available to almost all students through Fellowships and paid Graduate and Teaching Assistantships. Teaching Assistants teach independently or with faculty for as much as two years of their time at the University of Illinois. Each student is provided with studio space and 24-hour access to the School’s many production facilities that include installation spaces, woodshops, computer labs, digital output labs, and an equipment checkout system.
As a tier-one research university, Illinois offers a climate of rigorous production and inquiry by nationally and internationally recognized faculty and students. Frequent research and education partners for the School of Art and Design include Landscape Architecture, Computer Science, English/Creative Writing, Theater, Music, the Krannert Art Museum and the Institute for Communication Research. MFA students may take classes in any campus unit. The twin cities of Champaign-Urbana present many opportunities for creative cultural production and larger urban centers (Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis) are only two and half hours away―offering destinations for galleries, exhibitions, symposia, and professional connections.
The University of Illinois MFA Graduate Faculty are professional artists and designers―active at the highest levels of academic, professional and creative production. Current faculty in the MFA Program include: Conrad Bakker, Luke Batten, Stephen Cartwright, Nan Goggin, Ryan Griffis, Kevin Hamilton, Laurie Hogin, Ron Kovatch, Melissa Pokorny, Linda Robbennolt, Joel Ross, Tammie Rubin, Ernesto Scott, Joseph Squier, Billie Theide, Timothy Van Laar, Deke Weaver, Eric Benson, Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud, John Jennings, Jimmy Luu, Mark Arends, William Bullock, Deana McDonagh, Kevin Reeder, and David Weightman.
University of Illinois, School of Art + Design:
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School of Art + Design Graduate Program:
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
School of Art and Design
408 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-0855
For more information go to: http://www.art.uiuc.edu
