30 Master Programs in Fine Arts Studies in North America for 2024

Master Programs in Fine Arts Studies in North America for 2024Filter
    • San Francisco, USA

    Full time

    4 semesters

    Distance Learning, On-Campus

    English

    The MA in Fine Arts can be completed with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting. This degree program provides students with the creative and technical skills needed to thrive in today’s art world. Students will leave with professional-level portfolios and an understanding of the business of art.

    • Medford, USA

    Full time

    2 years

    On-Campus

    English

    Offered by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art is a rigorous interdisciplinary program that prepares graduate students for a career as professional artists grounded in artistic innovation and creativity.

    • San Francisco, USA

    On-Campus

    English

    SFAI’s two-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program provides a dynamic interdisciplinary context for students to advance their work while being exposed to the current theoretical and sociopolitical context for contemporary art. Questions, dialogue, and invention drive students through the curriculum, which instructs in the skills and practices needed to sustain a lifelong practice in the arts. The concept is emphasized alongside technical proficiency and skill, and artists are encouraged to experiment widely across media. Students may choose an area of emphasis, or maintain breadth in their studies.

    • Brookline, USA

    Full time

    On-Campus

    English

    The Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture provides the tools and language for students to become rigorous thinkers and artists in the twenty-first century. The program interweaves the significant demands of creative production, intellectual and theoretical inquiry, and critical engagement with cultural history and contemporary art discourse.

    • Oakland, USA

    English

    Maximize your critical and artistic development through a rigorous, multidisciplinary studio practice. In a close-knit community of peers, faculty, and visiting artists, your practice will evolve in exciting new directions. Mills offers a master of fine arts (MFA) degree in studio art led by a distinguished faculty of internationally known artists.

    • Purchase, USA

    On-Campus

    English

    The Media Arts Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program provides the academic, aesthetic, and technical tools to make art that matters. Purchase College’s excellent production facilities, teaching, research, and public engagement opportunities provide a fertile environment for graduate art studies.

    • Clinton, USA

    English

    The Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts degree offered by the Mississippi College Department of Art is an advanced graduate degree in the field of studio art, in either two-dimensional or three-dimensional areas.

    • Buckhannon, USA

    English

    West Virginia Wesleyan’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts program offers writers the opportunity to study fiction, nonfiction or poetry with accomplished and dedicated mentors in an intimate, student-centered environment. Read what students are saying, explore the HeartWood Blog and recent program news, learn more about the low-residency model and graduate assistantship eligibility, investigate our new cross-genre and audit options, and learn what some of our alums are doing out in the world.

    • Rockport, USA

    English

    Are you ready for a three-year conversation about your work? The low-residency program at MMC is for artists interested in engaging in a rigorous educational experience leading to the MFA degree in the media arts fields. Students work in various media arts including photography and filmmaking, as well as interdisciplinary and transmedia forms.

    • Madison, USA

    English

    The MA in Studio Art is offered as part of the Art MFA in Studio Art program. Applicants who are interested in pursuing an MA in Studio Art must apply to the Art MFA program.

    • Midtown - Downtown, USA

    English

    The Master of Arts (M.A.) in Studio Art is a 30 credit hour, two-year program for artists. Students complete 15 credit hours of graduate-level coursework in various studio art areas such as graphic design, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, and sculpture (3D studies).

    • Philadelphia, USA

    Full time

    1 year

    On-Campus

    English

    Moore’s Socially Engaged Arts degree programs bring together artists and organizers in the same space to critically and pragmatically engage in the discourses and practices concerned with art’s relationship to place, collaboration, ethics, material, and interdisciplinary research.

    • Online USA

    On-Campus

    English

    The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a limited-enrollment, academically rigorous, low residency two-year course of graduate studies for those aspiring to recover a faithful, theologically rich approach to the creative arts, particularly writing.

    • Los Angeles, USA

    English

    The MFA program offers six areas of specialization: Ceramics, Interdisciplinary Studio, New Genres, Painting and Drawing, Photography, and Sculpture. These studio areas are supplemented by seminars and lectures in contemporary critical theory. The program emphasizes the development of a sustained artistic practice through exploration, experimentation, and intensive studio work and study. Opportunities to investigate areas beyond one's concentration are made available.

    • Philadelphia, USA

    English

    University of the Arts is not currently accepting applications for this program. The low-residency Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art at the University of the Arts is a highly selective professional graduate program that imparts a tradition of artistic and academic excellence through a unique, low-residency format.