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The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program prepares you to be an effective and engaged artist in a world increasingly in need of independent thinking, consequential debate, creative vision, and responsible action.

We provide artists who work in any media, format, and context the skills and knowledge necessary to lead consequential lives in the arts. During two years of intensive study and sustained work, you will be challenged to clarify your core values and inspired to make works that embody those values in public, where they start conversations, influence others, and stimulate meaningful change.

Program Highlights:

Individual studios in the Art and Music Building dedicated to creation and collaboration between artists

One-on-one studio meetings with internationally recognized artists, critics, and curators

Two-track program that links your work as a artist to the world in which it takes shape, with seminars focused on arts organization dynamics, community engagement and development, curatorial practices and museum studies

Use of the state-of-art ceramics facilities at Scripps College Access to the faculties and resources from the highly ranked institutions of the Claremont Colleges, including Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps

Collaboration with graduate students in the Center for Business & Management of the Arts as well as dual-degree options

Proximity to the museums, galleries, and events in Los Angeles

A substantial number of Teaching Assistantship (TA) positions that allow students to gain hands-on teaching experience

Curriculum

60 Required Units Include:

24 units of studio art

16 units of graduate seminars

6 units of graduate practicums

8 units in one of two tracks: Arts Management or Community Engagement/Curatorial & Museum Studies

6 units of Electives or Additional Studio Art

MFA Project Advancement Paper: In your third semester, you will write an advancement paper that clarifies what it is you do as artist. Your faculty committee will review it.

Advancement Meeting: Held in your studio for one hour with your committee members to help focus your ideas and the development of your work in preparation for your MFA exhibition.

MFA Exhibition: The culmination of your time in the studio, in which you give a public exhibition of your art work.