M.F.A. in art
HEGIS code 1002
NYS SED program code 02016

The M.F.A. studio program offers concentrations in drawing and painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and digital art. Students usually focus on one of these but take courses in other areas and in art history. Periodically, their work is formally reviewed by the full faculty who also individually visit their studios for informal critiques. Graduating students participate in a large M.F.A. thesis exhibition, usually at a Manhattan gallery. The department has a fine arts rather than a commercial orientation and seeks a balance between the traditional and the new in its mix of students, faculty, and course content. The faculty includes internationally recognized artists whose work is found in such prestigious museums as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, and who have garnered numerous prizes, awards, grants, fellowships, and other honors. Many are represented by galleries here and abroad. Being in the heart of the art world, the department draws on New York's vast community of distinguished artists for our faculty and for the many visiting artists, art historians, critics, and curators who regularly lecture and give individual critiques of student work as part of a program that supplements the formal curriculum. In addition, our students have easy access to New York City's great museums and countless galleries.

A large percentage of our graduates are successful artists, many of whom sell their work in commercial galleries. Many also teach at leading art schools and universities. Others have become commercial artists, illustrators, computer graphics designers, architects, art directors, cartoonists, art restorers, and fashion designers-bringing their fine-arts sensibilities to these related fields. A number have won such major honors as the Guggenheim, Fulbright, Pollock-Krasner, and the Prix de Rome.

Program/Department Advisors

Advisor Name Title Phone Location Email Office Hours Mccoy, Jennifer Graduate Deputy 718-951-5321 5114 Boylan Hall jmccoy brooklyn.cuny.edu call/email for appointment

Building codes:    A-Whitehead;   B-Boylan;   J-James;   N-Ingersoll;   NE-Ingersoll Extension;   R-Roosevelt;   RE-Roosevelt Extension;   WEB - West End Building

Students choose a concentration in one of the following:
digital art; drawing and painting; printmaking; photography; or sculpture.

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Matriculation requirements
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Applicants must offer at least 36 credits in courses in art history and studio disciplines including a well-balanced distribution of credits in two-dimensional and three-dimensional studies acceptable to the Art Department.

Applicants must submit directly to the department graduate admissions committee a statement of graduate objectives and a selection of work in art emphasizing the intended area of concentration. Slides are acceptable. Materials should be sent to the committee before February 1 for fall admission. Applicants must also submit a completed application to the Brooklyn College Division of Graduate Studies. General matriculation and admission requirements of the Division of Graduate Studies are in the section "Admission."

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Degree requirements
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Forty-eight credits are required for the degree.

The following courses are required: Art 702X, 704X, Art 728X, Art 729X, 782.1G, 782.2G, 782.3G, and nine credits in approved advanced art history courses. Art 782.1G, 782.2G, and 782.3G must be taken in sequence, usually beginning in the first term of matriculation. Art 798G may be repeated for credit.

Students must also complete 12 credits in advanced studio art, internship, or independent study electives. Students must also complete 6 credits chosen from graduate level electives outside the department.

Independent creative work developed in Art 782.1G, 782.2G, and 782.3G must culminate in a final exhibition with accompanying written paper that must be reviewed and approved by a thesis committee consisting of two Art Department faculty and one faculty member from outside the department.

Courses in the Art Department offered toward the degree must be 700-level courses.

The program of study, including independent work, and outside cognate electives, must be approved by the deputy chairperson.

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Charles G. Shaw Awards
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For distinction in painting, the Art Department grants awards each term to a number of graduate students matriculated in the M.F.A. program.