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Program Overview

Many art schools are engaged in a national debate on how best to educate emerging artists. Many have devised programs that take certain positions relative to current innovations in the field, or in anticipation of future trends.

At the University of Houston School of Art, we reframed that discussion by focusing not on the contextual fields of practice, but rather on you 鈥� the practitioner. You are the only stable and absolutely central component in the equation. The only question worth asking is not how you might fit into our program, but rather how we might fit into yours. This question needs asking of each student who enters our MFA Program, and each answer will necessarily be as unique as each individual.

The way we fit into 鈥測our program鈥� by devising programs that are flexible and dynamic and by creating the environments that help you to broaden and deepen your investigations.

At the UH School of Art, we have solid MFA in Art concentrations in Painting, Sculpture, Photography/Digital Media, Graphic Design and Interdisciplinary Practice and Emerging Forms (IPEF). Built into each of these concentrations is the ability to extend outward and into the vast resources of a premier research institution. Our MFA Program integrates the University and the city of Houston as an extended classroom, in a fundamentally multidisciplinary platform.

Freedom, flexibility and intensive studio practice are supported within a rigorously intellectual environment. We recognize that artists working within the tradition of painting or at the frontier of emerging media need the intellectual, theoretical, conceptual and analytical tools to produce their work within larger social contexts. Critical Studies offerings provide a structure for that inquiry. Classes taught by Raphael Rubinstein, Professor of Critical Studies, bridge theory and practice, and function as a conceptual center for contemporary art discourse within the School of Art.

Our outstanding faculty and extensive visiting artist/critic program are supported by a vast expansion of scholarship through our faculty affiliate network. Colleagues from across the University mentor our graduate students with research interests that extend outside of the atelier and into fields as diverse as biology and physics. And our School is deeply embedded in Houston鈥檚 dynamic and established visual arts community - artists, designers, curators, and other professionals provide our students with expertise and a range of unique opportunities. We are rich in human assets.